> You know that open source has advantages, That's the reason I use it.
> for example FreeDOS > runs on more modern hardware Well, decent MS-DOS kernels plus command interpreters also have LBA, FAT32 and DOSLFN support. (But you're right regarding utilities, the FreeDOS ones are often better.) > and is actively supported. Is it? I'm still waiting for one of us both to apply the latest patches regarding SFTs, file seeks and self-owning PSP termination to the DOS-C SVN. Well, anyway: Granted, that's an advantage. > If you > try to buy MS DOS instead, they will just tell you that you > have bad taste and should buy Vista ;-) So (if you have to) just buy a used version from someone. > In addition, I have > no compatibility problems with FreeDOS that would motivate > me to use another DOS instead. I don't "use" MS-DOS to actually use it, but to debug it and therefore increase the compatibility of FreeDOS, or EDR-DOS, or RxDOS. Regards, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
