Liam ProvenMuch the same here, just quite proficient with DOS back in the
80's, I like that it's fast only doing ONE thing at a time, and boots so
quickly. Not to mention, it doesn't spy on you! And right, you aren't tempted
to surf the web/ LOL
On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 6:11:02 PM EDT, Liam Proven
<lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 18:00, Johnpaul Humphrey <jpth1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So my question is, why do YOU use FreeDOS?
OK. Disclaimer first: I do have FreeDOS here and there but I
personally prefer running PC DOS 7.1 or DR-DOS. The small differences
in FreeDOS irritate me, and I am more familiar with these versions. I
worked in tech support on DOS in the 1980s and 1990s and know those
versions best.
That aside: why do I still run DOS?
Well, I built up a lot of skills in DOS in my early career – I won
jobs on the basis of my DOS troubleshooting and optimisation skills. I
was an expert in DOS manual memory management and could usually get
circa 620 kB free conventional memory even on a heavily-loaded machine
with multimedia, an optical drive and a network stack.
These skills are completely obsolete and redundant these days.
So, installing DOS, especially on real hardware, is a fun chance to
exercise old skills that I do not get to use any more.
There are a huge number of DOS applications out there as abandonware
these days, albeit only quasi-legal. It's the work of minutes to
assemble a top-flight selection of office apps worth thousands of
£/$/€ 30 years ago. I know how to use many of these apps very quickly
and efficiently.
DOS takes little maintenance, especially compared with 21st century Windows.
It's very fast, it does a lot of what I need, and also it's blissfully
free of distractions once you've got it working. You can't just
Alt-Tab to another window and then waste hours idly surfing the Web.
You can't meaningfully use the Web at all. That helps me to get more
done.
It's also handy for re-flashing BIOSes and things like that. :-)
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