DOS ain't dead - MS-DOG wins and wins

MS-DOG wins and wins | Execellent BUG report (Miscellaneous)

posted by DOS386, 17.05.2009, 05:44
(edited by Rugxulo on 18.05.2009, 08:43)

Japheth wrote:

> + FD is "free" and "open source".
> Fine - but virtually a non-issue for 99.97% of the FD users
> ( as you can see, I'm optimistically assuming that there
> are 10.000 FD users and 3 of those are able to understand
> the sources). Additionally, FD costs nothing, but since there
> are at least 1 billion of WinXP or Win9x licenses around which
> include MS-DOS 8 or 7.1, it isn't that big an advantage for private users.

Nor for pirates, even source code is available for the good guys having the proprietary tools from MacroSoft available:

(link removed)

> + FD is "alive"
> There is reportedly a maintainer remaining for the FD kernel,
> but I'm unable to see "progress"

Recently (2009-May) seems a few things got fixed :-)

http://freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos?view=rev&revision=1384

> on the contrary, the recent versions of the FD kernel are now incompatible
> with HX, and I don't believe this will change anytime soon.

What an excellent BUG report :clap: Please reveal what they do wrong (steps to reproduce ???) :hungry:

> - FD is slow(er)
> This was the result of a test a couple of years ago and since nothing
> has changed on the FD side I assume it is still valid. The differences
> were "significant".

Slower in what activity ?

> - FD isn't fully compatible

Non-issue ;-)

> some things are implemented differently (syntax of config.sys)

It's a feature :-)

> some things are missing altogether.

Examples ?

> Anyways, some apps won't run, or at least won't run properly.
> Regrettably at least one of those apps (OW's WD) is frequently used by me.

It could be a BUG of FreeDOS or a BUG of OW-WD

> it was about Ctrl-C terminating my FTE "session"
> it's known by the FD kernel development crew,
> so we can confidently wait and see.............

Regrettably this "bug" is unique to your experimental FTE binary, I don't have this "bug" in FASM edtior, so most likely it's a bug of FTE source or some of your FTE hacks ;-)

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4DOS - Ninho, 29.03.2009, 17:02 (Miscellaneous)
- 4DOS - RayeR, 29.03.2009, 22:00
  - 4DOS - Ninho, 30.03.2009, 18:35
- 4DOS - DOS386, 31.03.2009, 03:39
  - 4DOS - Ninho, 05.04.2009, 19:56
    - 4DOS - Rugxulo, 05.04.2009, 23:50
      - 4DOS - Japheth, 06.04.2009, 09:11
        FreeDOS' main contributor - Rugxulo, 07.04.2009, 00:22
        FreeDOS' main noise contributor - Japheth, 07.04.2009, 07:45
        FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 07.04.2009, 13:24
        FreeDOS' contributor - Khusraw, 07.04.2009, 15:13
        FreeDOS' contributor - ecm, 07.04.2009, 20:12
        FreeDOS' contributor - Khusraw, 07.04.2009, 20:35
        FreeDOS' contributor - ecm, 07.04.2009, 21:51
        FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 08.04.2009, 19:32
        Why MS-DOS still "wins" - Japheth, 09.04.2009, 07:20
        Why MS-DOS still "wins" - ecm, 09.04.2009, 12:27
        MS-DOS still wins (except when it doesn't) - Rugxulo, 09.04.2009, 14:39
        MS-DOS wins and wins - Japheth, 10.04.2009, 18:56
        MS-DOG wins and wins | Execellent BUG report - DOS386, 17.05.2009, 05:44
        .EXEcellent - ecm, 17.05.2009, 17:04
        FreeDOS' contributor - Khusraw, 09.04.2009, 08:12
        FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 09.04.2009, 14:23
        FreeDOS' contributor - Khusraw, 09.04.2009, 16:24
        FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 09.04.2009, 17:02
        FreeDOS' contributor - ecm, 10.04.2009, 03:39
        FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 10.04.2009, 05:09
        FreeDOS' contributor - ecm, 11.04.2009, 11:34
        FreeDOS' contributor - Japheth, 07.04.2009, 15:24
        FreeDOS' contributor - RayeR, 08.04.2009, 00:19
        FreeDOS' contributor - rr, 08.04.2009, 21:25
        FreeDOS' main contributor - Khusraw, 07.04.2009, 10:27