[BC] any DOS fanatics out there?

[Cowboy]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 03:37 pm, tosenkowsky at prodigy.net wrote:
>Very generous offer, Barry but I prefer my DOS 4.0
>
>Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE

On Saturday 10 December 2005 07:17 pm, DANA PUOPOLO wrote:
>DOS 4.0 was probably the worst DOS made.
>DOS 5 was the best.
>
>-D

 In both of these cases, it depends on which DOS 4 is being refered to...

 The "released" version was actually a modified DOS 3.1
 The never-released version, the pre-emptive real-mode multi-tasking
 DOS 4 developed in parallel with DOS 3 was based on DOS 2.0,
 but WAS a true multitasking operating system. It later became IBM's OS/2,
 and formed some of the groundwork for Win NT.
 None of the other DOS were ever in the same league.

 My personal preferences run to that never released DOS 4, and the "best"
 of the released DOS 5.
 ( I think I've got a legit copy of every DOS from 1.0 to 6.22, as well as
 Windows 3.0 through WinNT 4.0 )

 So, both of the above statements are correct !

On Saturday 10 December 2005 04:04 pm, Jeff Allen wrote:
>Curious.  How many of you still use DOS?  Linux?
>
>J Allen

 Truth be told, I still have a few DOS apps for which there are no equivalent.
 One, runs the Sunshine EPROM burner, an ISA device for which source code
 remains unavailable, 20 years after it ceased production and the manufacturer
 went out of business.
 Requires a machine 486 66mhz or slower, due to timing constraints which, without
 source, I'm unable to fix, so there is that, on its dedicated 486.
 There are a few others.

 The other part of that question, yes, Slackware Linux is my main OS of choice
 these days.

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