Freedos may provide pressure if it is popular enough to stay with well known standard interfaces. If AHCI is going to be a well known interface and it offers some advantage over SATA, Freedos can have a driver for it and there is no reason to worry. In environments that are more time sensitive, where security is an after thought, DOS makes a lot of sense. In the long run, I see Freedos splitting into multiple OSes. Freedos can be maintained on the one hand to work with older commercial DOS software and older PCs, within reason. Another version of Freedos can forego compatibility in favor of providing a 32/64/128 bit OS, okay we don't have 128 bit computers yet. A time is coming when an OS that feels like DOS but supports newer hardware will be needed. Taking advantage of people's DOS skills while providing access to newer hardware will make more and more sense the more computers change. Maybe ReactOS will fill the need for an OS that can support modern hardware if it can be tweaked for real time computing. More likely though, Linux will fill that role. Minix maybe? The biggest problem that I see today is that hardware is still largely a black box. Companies haven't figured out yet that letting the public know how to write drivers for their hardware will make it more sought after and popular. This needs to change.
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