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Posted March 11, 2016
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zeroxxx: I'm way too good to be spending my arguments with unreasonable guys. You, maybe?
Being an unreasonable guy myself, I’ve of course no problem discussing with others of my kind ;P
Posted March 11, 2016
Umm...
Posted March 11, 2016
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HereForTheBeer: 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.
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hedwards: I think you're generally better using FreeDOS if you need the networking support.
Ah, thanks - I'll give that a mention to the customers still attempting to make DOS networking function correctly, if at all.
Posted March 11, 2016
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hedwards: I think you're generally better using FreeDOS if you need the networking support.
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HereForTheBeer: Ah, thanks - I'll give that a mention to the customers still attempting to make DOS networking function correctly, if at all.
FreeDOS is pretty good for what it does, it's just that what it does is rather niche at this point. It does have network support, so it's something to try if you need network support, I've never had any DOS programs that needed network support, so I don't really know how well it works.

But, it's certainly worth a go. I did also come a cross a sort of continuation for OS/2 that's apparently still for sale. I'm curious who's shelling out $145 for a home environment for that.
Posted March 11, 2016
You know, back when we still used Windows 95, I was so pissed at it that I went back to DOS. I even used DOS for the internet. That didn't last long though. It was too much work just to be pissed at Windows 95.
Posted March 11, 2016
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Darvond: This Windows 10 F/U/D is getting tiring.

It's far more stable than Windows Vista ever was and has far less issues than I've seen in an OS.
Windows Vista was perfectly stable after they got that first service pack released and the drivers were finally stable. Vista mostly suffered because it used a new driver model and a lot of the hardware manufacturers didn't have stable drivers, which meant more crashes than usual.

I've run Vista and it rarely crashed for me. My mother had a lot of crashes, but that was primarily because the drivers weren't very well written.

But, say what you will about Vista, at least it didn't look like a tinker toy product by retarded spies.
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sunshinecorp: You know, back when we still used Windows 95, I was so pissed at it that I went back to DOS. I even used DOS for the internet. That didn't last long though. It was too much work just to be pissed at Windows 95.
Back then you could force Win 95 to boot into DOS by default if you so wished. It wasn't something I ever did, because it was a lot of work to just use DOS, but it was possible at the time. These days you can't because they completely removed DOS sometime before XP, but for those that really want it, FreeDOS is probably a better choice because it has some hardware features to better work with modern hardware.
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Posted March 11, 2016
As much as I'd like to agree with the poster, Windows 10 is a modern OS and DOS is an old era OS with, as far as I've been told, no real multi-tasking capability, nor the proper architecture to run on modern hardware.

On powerful modern hardware, Windows 10 is the superior OS hands down. I think the OP is clearly speaking in jest.

That being said... Linux FTW! Die Windows, die!
Post edited March 11, 2016 by Magnitus
Posted March 11, 2016
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hedwards: It wasn't something I ever did, because it was a lot of work to just use DOS
My memory insists that it required you to remove win.exe from the end of the autoexec.bat, or was it that you had to boot in step by step and say no to the final "Win?" prompt?
Not sure, but I do recall I had my 386 set up to boot in Dos by default, with a whooping 604KB of conventional memory, mouse, sound and CD. I was quite proud of that setup.
Posted March 11, 2016
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hedwards: It wasn't something I ever did, because it was a lot of work to just use DOS
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JMich: My memory insists that it required you to remove win.exe from the end of the autoexec.bat, or was it that you had to boot in step by step and say no to the final "Win?" prompt?
Not sure, but I do recall I had my 386 set up to boot in Dos by default, with a whooping 604KB of conventional memory, mouse, sound and CD. I was quite proud of that setup.
The fun thing is that it was different on each computer what you'd have to do to clear out the memory. I'd expect that you'd have to remove that if you had it in there. You'd also have to load damn near everything you had loaded there in high mem.

It was probably something that should have been ditched even though it would break compatibility with previous processors.
Posted March 11, 2016
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hedwards: I think you're generally better using FreeDOS if you need the networking support.
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HereForTheBeer: Ah, thanks - I'll give that a mention to the customers still attempting to make DOS networking function correctly, if at all.
Decent printing was a big deal in Windows too. Everyone remember how you had to have a whole dedicated printing subsystem (and drivers) for every program? You may have had WordPerfect working great but nothing else...
Posted March 11, 2016
Dos > W10 ?!!
Posted March 12, 2016
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swatkat: Dos > W10 ?!!
= you're a lying cheating piece of shit! :D
Post edited March 12, 2016 by tinyE
Posted March 12, 2016
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swatkat:
tags nes scammer alt
Post edited March 12, 2016 by apehater
Posted March 12, 2016
Man I remember my first PC came with DOS 6.22 and Win3.11. The OS was much simpler and I remember spending more time in DOS typing commands than in Win. In fact I ran most of the games within DOS.

I like the command prompt particularly because it can do more than the GUI counterpart can. My DOS roots are part of the reason why I like Linux also.
Posted March 12, 2016
The best OS is still Derek Smart's Desktop Commander.
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