9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
4:24 a.m.
On 8 July 2014 21:19, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
Nicely played, in both posts! :-)
Yes, I thought that, too. :?)
You can't go wrong with (MS-DOS-like) DOS. It
runs fine on modern
hardware. I do my main software development daily on a DR-DOS V8 system
:-o
and I just don't want to hear the whining of some
kid who hated using it
for a single day so much that he had to write an article complaining about
it.
Did you RTFA? It wasn't like that at all. Blame the subeditor for the title.
He's an old-timer -- one of the first things he does is get
WordPerfect, which he rhapsodises about. He points to the legit free
download of MS Word 5.5 for DOS (which for laughs I grabbed and got
running under ``dosemu'' last night) but his preference is clear. This
guy is from the era of MS-DOS, as I am myself, and he's taking a trip
down memory lane... which I've done, too.
I quite liked the piece. It has some insightful stuff -- like he got a
TCP/IP connection going over a packet driver and Crynwr, which is a
non-trivial exercise, particularly today -- and got a *current* DOS
WWW browser working.
This was a more dedicated exercise than I've ever bothered to do.
Getting DOS networked wasn't hard, but TCP/IP on it is not child's
play.
DOS works as well as it ever did, except INSANELY
faster and with
basically infinite disk space.
I bet it does!
Do you use a multitasker, JOOI? DESQview or something?
--
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