Slashdot story about Tim Patterson "Father of DOS"...

[DosFreak 2]

Yeah, I read that earlier tonight.

 

Lots of info I didn't know but it's hard to get the facts from Slashdot. Going to have to find a good book or something for the REAL truth. Unfortunately, that's what this whole mess is about. heh. I wonder if Bill Gates knows?

 

Lots of people bashing DOS, heck they probably don't even know what DOS is!

 

As you mentioned APK, DOS is still usefull even today:

 

Low level access to hardware

Low memory footprint

Fast boot speed

Less possibillity of corruption due to virus/spyware/adware.

Cheap to license

 

Compare this to something like Linux or Windows Embedded and for certain types of hardware DOS is more usefull.