Dr. DOS Betamax's DOS Fansite
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Dr. DOS Betamax's DOS Fansite
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#2Don't remember how I stumbled on this site, but it had to have been 15-20 years ago that I did. Was pleasantly surprised to see that it's still online and that the author is still singing the praises of DOS.
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#3Don't remember how I stumbled on this site, but it had to have been 15-20 years ago that I did. Was pleasantly surprised to see that it's still online and that the author is still singing the praises of DOS.
I was just thinking that the site looks about the same as the first time I saw it too. That must have been around 2007.
IIRC, that site once had Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 pages as well.
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#4You don't see that /~username/ pattern in URLs so often these days. I always liked it.
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#5Was DOS considered to be better than Windows back then?
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#7Was DOS considered to be better than Windows back then?
They were different tools and could not be used to replace each others.
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#8You don't see that /~username/ pattern in URLs so often these days. I always liked it.
Still configurable in Apache :)
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#9I read that as DR DOS (Digital Research) which I was enamored of until MS DOS 5.0 came out.
Digital Research made GEM (a Mac-like desktop GUI) and included a pared down version called ViewMAX in DR DOS 5.0 but ultimately didn't deliver on providing a Mac-like interface.
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#10Was DOS considered to be better than Windows back then?
The transition to Windows was a lot more painful than the glossy history suggests. DOS had a huge eco-system of programs, TSRs to help you context switch, incredibly popular word processing and spreadsheet packages and solid networking if you had Netware available.
Windows wouldn't even load on some PC's depending on which memory manager you had installed, what else you were trying to run and what kind of network stack(s) you had loaded.
In some places, trying to get people to switch to Microsoft Word away from WordPerfect result in some very heated discussions. Similarly with products like "Sidekick"[0] - a manner of working that many people got used to.
Windows was often an imposition from corporate. Windows 3.0 was popular but it wasn't necessarily an improvement over the way people were working with IBM PCs.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_pr...