On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 22:20, tom ehlert via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I think Liam's post was not about "advocating" FreeDOS, but about "helping" > a nooby user. Thank you. Yes, that was exactly my intention. If one needs DOS for something, then FreeDOS is the best option today. If one needs BASIC, though, there are better options. If one needs a tiny OS to learn and explore, there are better options. If one needs any functionality past the 1980s, such as networking, internet, wireless, multimedia, multitasking, high-resolution or 3D graphics, modern accessibility tools, modern hardware support, support for modern very low-end hardware... there are other, better choices. > Nope. AFAICT it's a person wanting to learn programming; no mentioning of > FreeDOS. Agreed. > And learning FreeDOS and learning programming at the same time is taking Two > steps at once. > Usually not a smart idea. Strongly agreed. > it should be a serious reply. > in this case I'd vote "probaly not unless the original BASIC is a DOS based > BASIC". > even then use a 32 Bit version of Windows(if the intended use case is > learning to program). 100% agreed. > I simply guarantee that you won't be able to write a program that crashes any > version of modern Windows Dosbox. > I fail to see the advantage. Also true. -- 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
