On top of my head:

- In DOS, file search worked.
- To turn off DOS, you don’t have to do any fancy-pant shit like “close down the OS” - no, you simply cut the power!
- DOS has more mature file copying with Norton Commander.
- DOS can run Windows 3.11
- Batch files.
- DOS is stable enough to be used by NASA (a DOS glitch nearly killed Mars Rover, though)
- Not spyware.
- DOS can run Quarantine.

But can it run Crysis?

You know, they used to ask if the computers could run DOOM... DOOM was a heavy duty game/program and did lots of graphics processing at the time, and was one of the biggest shareware games. More than once on a computer with minimum specs, I had to shrink the screen size less than half the screen before the framerate was good enough to play decently.

prompt Hi Asshole $_$p$g in autoexec.bat

DOS wins.

DOS is easier to spell.

Wait, what? Windows 10 dropped support for batch files? Are you sure?

DOS never gave my mother an infection.

Does it matter? They are going to hide the commandline and insist you should use GUI programs that no one wants to use learn or even hear about batch files or the commandline programs. It may as well be dead.

Besides Batch files were confusing to program unless you just had a static list of programs/items to run. BASH scripts are much better, and love the #! (shebang)

cls

These lists run into a brick wall when networking comes up. Anecdotally speaking, that is, from listening to customers lament about trying to connect an old MS-DOS machine to a modern network environment without using, say, a Win98 box as a go-between.


But, I'll give MS-DOS one thing: since so few people these days know how to do anything with it, there's a lot lower chance of the average user screwing up the OS.

I started with Dos 6.2. I was lucky enough to have programs like Norton Commander back then. My 120MB hard disk could run over 100 games flawlessly. Although I had my best days with Windows 98.

Good old days... :-|

I think you're generally better using FreeDOS if you need the networking support.

Hmmm... DOS. Good memories. I think those of us who grew up in the DOS era have a slightly higher constitution when it comes to troubleshooting on pc. Also makes me think I might be really good at learning Linux, if I gave it the chance...