Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

[Steve N. <uso...@bu...>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, Liam Proven wrote:

> Fair. For me, I left the IBM reseller that was my first job and moved
> to a much smaller company, so I stopped working with a mixture of PC
> DOS and MS-DOS and switched to mostly MS-DOS, with a little DR DOS.

Meanwhile I started out with PC DOS 3.2, and mostly used the IBM dialect 
on my first couple machines.

> There has been a little bit of renewed interest in PC DOS from the
> late '90s onwards, especially with the recent retro-gaming trend,
> because IBM continued development for some time, into this century,
> while Microsoft switched focus to Windows only. Connectix' VirtualPC
> program -- a PC emulator on MacOS, but a hypervisor on Windows -- used
> to bundle PC DOS 2000 for free as its sample VM. So I suspect that a
> bunch of new users first encountered it that way.

And PC DOS is more compatible with MS-DOS than other DOSes, because, well, 
it *is* MS-DOS.

> I run it PC DOS some of my Thinkpads, simply because it feels
> artistically _right_ somehow to run an IBM OS on what was originally
> IBM-designed hardware. :-)

Likewise my PS/2 runs PC DOS.

-uso.