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On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:09 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 18:00, Johnpaul Humphrey jpth1...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> So my question is, why do YOU use FreeDOS?
>
> OK. Disclaimer first: I do have FreeDOS here and there but I
> personally prefer running PC DOS 7.1 or DR-DOS. The small differences
> in FreeDOS irritate me, and I am more familiar with these versions. I
> worked in tech support on DOS in the 1980s and 1990s and know those
> versions best.
> That aside: why do I still run DOS?
> Well, I built up a lot of skills in DOS in my early career –
"But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired
over a very long career..."
Liam, are you sure your last name isn't Neeson? lol
But seriously though, you capture many of the same reasons I myself still use
DOS. I may not use it often, but when I do, the immense power and control it
gives me to perform the task at hand is unparalleled. Cheers to (Free)DOS! :D
> I won jobs on the basis of my DOS troubleshooting and optimisation skills. I
> was an expert in DOS manual memory management and could usually get
> circa 620 kB free conventional memory even on a heavily-loaded machine
> with multimedia, an optical drive and a network stack.
> These skills are completely obsolete and redundant these days.
> So, installing DOS, especially on real hardware, is a fun chance to
> exercise old skills that I do not get to use any more.
> There are a huge number of DOS applications out there as abandonware
> these days, albeit only quasi-legal. It's the work of minutes to
> assemble a top-flight selection of office apps worth thousands of
> £/$/€ 30 years ago. I know how to use many of these apps very quickly
> and efficiently.
> DOS takes little maintenance, especially compared with 21st century Windows.
> It's very fast, it does a lot of what I need, and also it's blissfully
> free of distractions once you've got it working. You can't just
> Alt-Tab to another window and then waste hours idly surfing the Web.
> You can't meaningfully use the Web at all. That helps me to get more
> done.
> It's also handy for re-flashing BIOSes and things like that. :-)
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