On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:01 AM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >[..] > I'm 44 and surmise that I am one of the *younger* regulars on the list, so > is it really any surprise things are a bit old-fashioned around here? > (Some of the other old-times probably know what an ignorant little n00blet > I was when I first showed up here in the late 1990s.) >
I don't know if you're the youngest on the list, but definitely not the youngest person to use FreeDOS. We get a fair number of new FreeDOS users who are at university - so that's probably 18 years old? I get a lot of these emails, probably because my email is everywhere (trademark statement, etc). I suspect these new users discover FreeDOS as part of a computer science course or an IT/MIS course. That would make sense, because DOS is a simple operating system that makes it very easy to walk through "how computers work" : boot the kernel, which reads CONFIG.SYS, start the command shell, which reads AUTOEXEC.BAT, and you're ready to enter commands. That's why when I updated the website last year, I made such an effort to do several rounds of design .. usability test .. update .. usability test .. update. The goal was to answer most questions via the website, without emailing me. My inbox gets less of these questions now, so I guess it's working. :-) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
