On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Ralf Quint wrote:
The biggest problem that I see with/for FreeDOS is the number of people
actually still interested in working with/for (Free)DOS. That number has
always been limited, but has gotten even smaller over the years. Beside Jim,
who started this, I might actually now be the longest surviving member here,
being more or less active since late '95 or early '96. A lot of people from
the early years have come and gone, for various reasons. But what has become
a slow but seemingly steady stream is that there are new people showing up
once in a while, with a whole plethora of grand ideas, that very quickly end
up nowhere. As it seems, mostly because the vast majority of those doesn't
understand what DOS is. And that seems to be part of the overall trend, where
people are coming up with solutions for issues that people pretend to have
in order to solve problems that nobody has...
I've been in and out of lurk-mode here since the late 1990s. More out,
because I've taken a drink from the devil's firehose. ;)
Since I grew up on primitive home computers, and MS-DOS (or PC DOS) was my
main OS for years, I probably understand DOS a bit more intuitively than
these johnny-come-latelys who seem to want to turn DOS into Linux.
DOS did pick up a number of Unixisms. That's why C is such a good
language for it. But it's not Unix, and never will be Unix. It's DOS,
and that's what I like about it.
-uso.
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