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Re: DOS And A Floppy More Reliable, Useful Than Vista

  • Subject: Re: DOS And A Floppy More Reliable, Useful Than Vista
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:31:03 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 30 March 2007 16:39 \__

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linonut
> <linonut@xxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:08:05 -0500
> <U5KdncMZ-4GI4pHbnZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, flyer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>>> I think a return to small simple stable brick-solid single-thread DOS
>>>> would serve many people very well.  I've just noticed Freedos has a
>>>> flash driver of some sort coming up: when this arrives at stable
>>>> usefulness, I'm interested.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers -- Martha Adams        [cola 2007 Mar 29]
>>>> >
>>>> > Linux, lean, mean and FAST is on a march.
>>>
>>> Viva DOS. I need to check out the latest non-MS versions of DOS, Any
>>> suggestions? I'd forgot about FreeDos.
>>>
>>> I tried a DOS web browser last year and it blew me away. BLAZING FAST and
>>> the graphics were just fine, only slightly clunky. I forget the program
>>> name.
>>
>> You should see how fast DOS apps compile (using makefiles).
>>
>> You can get a relative idea of the effect by comparing the compiling of
>> a C library to a similar-sized C++ library.
>>
> 
> Or perhaps a Gnome tool to a comparable KDE tool.  I'll
> admit KDE frustrates me whenever it upgrades, because it
> takes quite a bit of time to compile. :-)

You Gentoo users are a bunch of l33ts! I bet you eat your peas one at a time.
:-)

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