Michael Robinson schreef: > I like dos when I have an old computer and some old games that > work under dos. Running Windows on a 486 is a pain in general. > Even a low end Pentium these days is slow. (...) > Freedos is free and useful insofar as it is compatible with > MS-DOS when it needs to be to run old software. > > Freedos is useful if there are applications written specifically > for it for those of us who don't have functional MS-DOS software > lying around.
I use Freedos for a programming game. I write programs in Pascal[*], compile them in FreeDos, and let them compete in a simulator that only works on DOS. [*] Cue bashing of my favorite toy programming language ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user