Being an unreasonable guy myself, I’ve of course no problem discussing with others of my kind ;P

Umm...

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.

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.

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.
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.

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!

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.

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...

Dos > W10 ?!!

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The best OS is still Derek Smart's Desktop Commander.