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Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 17.09.2007, 01:27
(edited by DOS386 on 17.09.2007, 01:54)

> > Obviously, they support a LOT of platforms (including Win64), so DOS is
> > not a huge priority to them, for whatever reason (lack of

... interest. The reason are all the other "much better" platforms :-(

> > Sometimes I wonder if people avoid DOS because either they want everyone
> > to (have to) use GNU/Linux
YES.

> > or they think DOS always means MS-DOS (and hate it because of them).

YES.

> I mean, FreeDOS is more "free" than any Windows, and
... nevertheless you tested the Galactical stuff on Vi$ta :confused:

> Why would anyone hate MS-DOS? It always worked very well for me.
I do hate MS-DOG :-P Why ? What is MS-DOG (or MS-DOS, M$-DO$, messy-dos, ...) at all ? Anyone has a consistent definition ? I don't ... :hungry:

> > yet people always port stuff to Windows and not nearly as much to DOS
Because they don't have DOS, and consider DOS as desperately old, obsolete, dead, crappy, unusable, no-GUI, no-multitask, no-multiabuser, no-internet, no-multimedia, no-sound-in-DOS, not-free, M$-proprietary, DOS=MS-DOG, no-hardware-support, runs-on-oldest-PC's-only, no-serious-OS, "Windows"-booter only, needs-"Windows"-anyway, 16-bit-only, 640-KiB-only, unreliable-in-NTVDM, no-GUI-in-Vi$ta, no-DOS-at-all-in-Vi$ta-64, no-USB-in-DOS, beginner-programmers-toy-only, ...

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