Only one correction.
Windows and MacOSX are certainly graphical by default, though both have
text terminals very similar to the dos prompt.
On the other hand, Linux, bsd, and other unix versions are also text
interfaces by default. If you don't install a windows manager (such as
gnome), then there is no graphical interface on linux.
In that regard, it's very similar to dos.
Text by default, but graphical by choice (just like running windows)
Mac OSX is different, because it's configured by default to run a GUI,
which a basic linux system out of the box doesn't do unless it's
configured differently by it's distributor (ubuntu, debian, and so on.)
On 8/18/2023 1:51 AM, Norby Droid via Freedos-user wrote:
I think there may be a bit of confusion we need to let new DOS users
aware of, and that is DOS is a "Text-Mode" system and not graphical
like Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc.
DOS by nature is only text (although graphics is possible)
Maybe make a distinction between "Text Resolution" and "Graphic/Screen
Resolution"
DOS when booted is 80 characters with 25 lines using an 8x16 pixel
font. This could be called a text resolution of 640x400 (not 640x480
which is actually 30 lines of 80 characters).
You can change the number of lines and the number of characters per
line as well as the width and height of the font (like 8x32 or 9x16)
which will give ya more room or less depending on your choices as well
as change the look of the text, but this is still ALL text not graphics.
Also of note is that although ya can be making changes, DOS has the
tendency to revert back to its default state of 25x80 8x16 native font
when he screen gets cleared or when exiting different software.
This is my two cents about DOS Mode. Just remember DOS is Text (by
default) not Graphics.
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