Hi All
I am 66 years old and have been developing microprocessor based products
for over 35 years and use DOS 90% of the time. I run DOS under XP with
"TAME" to stop 100% CPU usage. The XP PC is on my network but remains
invisible to the Internet. A MikroTik router has been setup to
accomplish this. I use a dedicated PC running LUBUNTU for email and Web.
(Thunderbird and Firefox). Prior to DOS I used TSC's Flex, TSC's Uniflex
and then Mark William's COHERENT.
Principle DOS applications that I run are:-
CO - Michael Mefford's DirMagic
MS - Micro Star from Borland's Editor Toolbox
SP - Sprint - Borland's Word Processor - Produce Postscript files which
are converted to PDF's. Used for all documentation, letters and quotations.
AS12 - Motorola's open source assembler for the HCS12 family.
asm03 - Budd Pass's 68XX assembler
asm8 - Tony Papadimitriou's freeware assembler for Motorola/ Freescale/
NXP HCS08 MCU family
TCC - Borland's C compiler.
grep - Borland's version.
Fast, vanilla and solid!
Regards, John
On 2021/04/14 17:59, Johnpaul Humphrey wrote:
In light of the "DOS was dead" discussion, I wanted to ask a question.
I was *born* after support was dropped for MS-DOS, so I can't claim
nostalgia as my reason for use. Recently I installed FreeDOS on my
modern HP-Pavilion laptop, alongside BSD, Linux, and plan9. I did this
because I like DOS's speed and assembly programming.
It worked fine after I fixed the beep bug with your help.
So my question is, why do YOU use FreeDOS?
Is it primarily nostalgia? Legacy program support? Speed?
Note that I don't consider running legacy software a bad reason. I was
shocked by how much good software has been "thrown away" because of
its age. On Linux all my favorite software (vi, siag office, twm,
motif &c.) was written before I was born. However, that is not my
primary reason for using FreeDOS. my primary reason is because it is
like the motorcycle of operating systems. It is lightweight, has no
red tape to cut through to do things, and is monotasking. (Monotasking
is also why I don't use it as much as I would like to, but why I use
it at all.)
I figured that if I had a different reason than what everybody
assumes, that some of you might as well. Everyone seems to assume that
DOS is used by people who are unable to cope with progress and have to
run their ancient version of word perfect. If that is your reason, it
is not a bad reason. I was thinking of eventually writing a 64-bit dos
work [sort of] alike eventually, but it would not be able to support
legacy programs due to segment offset addressing and a million other
things.
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