Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Back in the early DOS days, there was a lot of disdain for the
platform. "Real" programmers used unix workstations, not toy 16 bit
PCs. It turned out, though, that most of the fortunes were made
programming for DOS, and eventually those programs and programmers
migrated to 32 bits and brought the industry with it. DOS was the
"gateway" programming platform.
Yah but due to other factors than its technical qualities. Leaving those
out of the story puts things in an odd light.
It looks primitive these days, of course, but at the time it hit the
sweet spot of max technology for minimal price. The performance/cost was
the best available.
