Hi Jim, > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 6:26 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > [..] >> There are good reasons that DOS went away some 35 years ago. It has >> its uses but not being able to flip to another window or another >> screen to consult documentation, or try something out, or look it up >> online, is a *massive* handicap.
+1 > That's a very interesting way of "advocating" FreeDOS, and "helping" > folks who are new to FreeDOS. I think Liam's post was not about "advocating" FreeDOS, but about "helping" a nooby user. > Here we have a person who discovered FreeDOS, who wants to experiment > with FreeDOS by writing programs with it, and was looking for pointers > to get started. Nope. AFAICT it's a person wanting to learn programming; no mentioning of FreeDOS. And learning FreeDOS and learning programming at the same time is taking Two steps at once. Usually not a smart idea. > It's a very odd reaction to immediately tell that > person to go find another operating system. That's not very welcoming. > If someone discovers FreeDOS and wants to explore FreeDOS, we should > help them find a way to "Yes" and not to "No." it should be a serious reply. in this case I'd vote "probaly not unless the original BASIC is a DOS based BASIC". even then use a 32 Bit version of Windows(if the intended use case is learning to program). > And if something goes really wrong (like you did > something weird in a new program you wrote, and it crashes and locks > up the system) you just reboot. I simply guarantee that you won't be able to write a program that crashes any version of modern Windows Dosbox. I fail to see the advantage. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
