Hi This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability of DOS vis-a-vis hardware. The starting point for my reasoning is: what will happen with the future development of the hardware architectures? So far DOS has fared relatively well, in the sense that it can still run even on 32bit and 64bit architectures, despite the fact that it does not fully support them. Now the question is: will it always be like this? Or will there come a point when, due to a radical CPU redesign, we won't be able to even use DOS any longer on newer machines? What are the chances of this happening?
Related questions are: how adaptable would the (Free)DOS codebase prove, in the event of this happening? How much manpower would be required to recode/adapt (Free)DOS to the new needs? In short, could DOS survive such a situation? I know that this may look as an overly pessimistic scenario, but I believe it's one we had better anticipate, rather than just assuming that things will always be as they are now. I hope I am very wrong in my reasoning, and I would be very glad if someone pointed it out. Cheers Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
