On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 23:06, Thomas Cornelius Desi <t...@mttw.at> wrote: > > That is the main reason: smaller and… simpler.
There are good reasons that DOS went away some 35 years ago. It has its uses but not being able to flip to another window or another screen to consult documentation, or try something out, or look it up online, is a *massive* handicap. If you wanted to develop _for_ DOS you would be better in a VM and using the host OS. > The adjective »older« might technically become a problem for a wider audience. So? > I don’t know of any OS that is as small as DOS. Isn’t it? Many of them, yes, and they are all more capable. Oberon's core OS is some 4000 lines of code: that is a complete multitasking OS with a tiled windowing user interface, an editor and a compiler. https://www.projectoberon.net/ One of its successors is A2, which is Internet-capable, with email, chat, a browser, etc. The core OS is 8000 lines of code. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2 For both of these, there is a native PC version and it also runs on DOS, Windows, MacOS, Linux and other systems. If you have a Raspberry Pi, the core of RISC OS is 6MB of code. That's the kernel, the GUI, the desktop, the text editor, image viewer, BASIC, and so on. It's a multitasking internet-capable GUI OS with one of the best and fastest BASICs ever. https://www.riscosdev.com/direct/ I like DOS. I use DOS. But I am also realistic about DOS. If you want to learn, today, almost anything else is better. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
