I've used ios (junked it), Android & Freedos. Freedos is not too far behind those two. Android is fine but is always being upgraded. I think I'm on my 10th tablet. They work for awhile but then soon need a upgrade - buy a new tablet time is about every 6 months so far.At least tablets are dirt cheap; not too much pain. I wish I could do on Excell half the stuff I can do on dos Qpro. On windows Excell everything has to be done with Visual basic commands; the macro commands seem to be only window dressing - they don't do everything the books claim. Dos may have alot of limits but you can still get alot dfone with it. HP could use FREEDOS development to break in their new engineers. Most companies fire halft of their hires in a few months if they can't produce. Dos could be used to weed them out.
DS On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:57:28 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > HP's resources are so great that it would just be a > > tiny project for them. > > HP does things for *money*. There is no money in developing drivers > for DOS, and the developers who are *capable* of doing it have > others > things to do for HP that *will* generate revenue. People who can > write drivers do not grow on trees. > > It's the same reason you don't see drivers contributed as volunteer > efforts. Programmers who *can* do that will spend their time doing > stuff they get *paid* for. > > > It would be nice to use an OS that actually works. > > I use several - Windows, Linux, Android... > > > It would move FREEDOS to the level of IOS or Android > > both highly used today. > > It wouldn't move FreeDOS anywhere *near* Android or iOS. > > DOS was an OS created for 16bit bit CPUs with hardware imposed > limits > on the amount of RAM accessible. Early CPUs were a lot *slower*, > too > (Remember the 8088 used in the original IBM PC ran at 4.77 > *megahertz*, and could address 1MB RAM.) > > Current CPUs are all at least 32bit, and increasingly 64 bit, > capable > of accessing gigabytes of RAM, with multiple cores and *designed* > for > multi-tasking that DOS doesn't *do*. FreeDOS on hardware like that > as > the main OS is a pointless waste of time. It can't make use of the > hardware. It only becomes reasonable as a guest OS under something > like VirtualBox, VMWare, or Xen, where it's one of an assortment of > things the machine is doing. > > The currently ballyhooed Internet of Things is occurring because > stuff > like 32bit ARM CPUs which can actually run a full TCP-IP stack and > connect to the Internet are cheap enough to be embedded in places > were > you might have used an 8bit CPU at best in the past to keep the > costs > affordable. Hardware is *cheap* and getting cheaper. > > > Although Android is alot better than IOS. > > Well, it's multitasking. > > > I just did my USA taxes using dos QPRO macros. > > I've written spreadsheets using Excell and Qpro. > > Excell is very pretty but for doing work dos Qpro > > is more powerful and easier to write.macros. > > And you want to continue doing what you always did, the way you > always > did it, and not have to change. > > If you *can* do that, more power to you. > > But you really need to learn more about what has occurred in > computing > since you became proficient at DOS and DOS apps, whether or not you > actually use it. > > > cheers > > DS > ______ > Dennis > > > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:40:05 -0400 dmccunney > <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> > > writes: > >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Dale E Sterner > <sunbeam...@juno.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Pity, if they gave it 802.11 and BT drivers; it would > >> > make FREEDOS more appealing. > >> > >> Someone would have to *make* such drivers to include. 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