I finished reading the "Why We Love FreeDOS" book a few nights ago. A really good read, and led myself to a similar conclusion, DOS/FreeDOS is a really good platform for learning and implementing initial experimental engineering for experimental or working hardware due to simplicity and bare metal access.
With the low-boot times of older hardware, can imagine likely has a constant foothold within certain areas. Albeit, more so within the private/civilian sector nowadays. No wonder I had such a difficult time with DOS, DOS was a morphed incarnation of CP/M. Main difference, instead of a ready prompt, put the user at the C:\ prompt. I more so enjoy the Unix/Linux platform, all the software tends to co-exist more peacefully than the intricate parts of DOS. On the flip, DOS is assembly, whereas Unix/Linux is primarily C programming language. Unix/Linux, when using the command line, typing just flows far better than typing DOS commands. However, have an open mind and would likely spend some time in DOS/FreeDOS, if I can find some purposeful use besides just using Word Perfect. I rarely ever waste time playing games. You'll readily realize, if you find me wasting time playing a DOS game, it'll likely be because I'm sitting in a retirement home after having my computer/Internet confiscated, trying to patiently await for my funeral. And there's an idea, pretty sure prisons likely allow prisoners to use DOS without Internet, for playing games... Roger On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 8:23 PM Norby Droid via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I love FreeDos and it s the only operating system on my opd msi computer > running a quad core 2.66ghz cpu amd 4gb of ram. My main use is just > programming in PowerBasic or FreeBasic, and I may sometime try C thanks to > the great videos Mr Hall has on youtube. I do rarely play games, or play > mp3 or midi files for some fun. Personally I prefer to use an old computer > running FreeDos than a new computer running Linux. I am no pro programmer, > but I do love to program and see what I can create. > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 20:11 Eric Auer via Freedos-user < > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> Hi Jim! >> >> > My favorite example of someone running FreeDOS was years ago, probably >> > around 2005. They built pinball machines, and FreeDOS ran the scoring >> > system, lit the lights, and played sound effects from a sound bank... >> >> Maybe they used some type of lab control or GPIO type ISA or PCI card? >> >> > My favorite example before that was a nebulous one. Someone from NASA >> > emailed me in the late 1990s to say they were using FreeDOS on some of >> > their computers. They never provided details, so I don't know what it >> > was doing - but how cool that NASA was using FreeDOS!? >> >> I remember somebody asking whether FreeDOS had contributions from people >> from evil countries, because they wanted to use it to run some type of >> in-flight entertainment system with some media player app for DOS :-) >> >> More recently, during a small demoscene event, I noticed that one of >> the presented demos was a 256 byte demo running on FreeDOS. The boot >> message was only visible for a moment, so I do not know what type of >> virtual hardware that FreeDOS instance was running on. >> >> Cheers, Eric >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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