In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: jimmsta
I have a handful of customers that still rely on DOS for both work and pleasure. That said, it would have been helpful for Microsoft to have offered an MS-DOS 7 product, but since Chicago included a form of DOS, it was, and can be modified to only ever boot into DOS mode, and never any further - this was essentially the basis for the unofficial MS-DOS 7, which functions quite well in situations where the end user just needs a simple disk operating system to load up programs from the late 80's-mid 90's. Off the top of my head, I can tell you that I have at least 3 customers that are still using DOS 6.2-based cash registers, one customer uses a DOS app to print his checks (which my boss witnessed, and said was the fastest bookkeeping app he's ever seen -- we're used to the sluggishness of quickbooks), and one customer utilizing an ancient application that has some sort of stock algorithm that was never re-written into a modern app (because the algorithm wasn't transcribed to documentation, and the original programmer died) - but the customer bases his entire business as a stock analyst on this one app.
Surprisingly, DOS still has a place in the modern world - hell, it'd be awesome to see Microsoft release some sort of official DOS 9, even this late in the game.
By User: jimmsta
I have a handful of customers that still rely on DOS for both work and pleasure. That said, it would have been helpful for Microsoft to have offered an MS-DOS 7 product, but since Chicago included a form of DOS, it was, and can be modified to only ever boot into DOS mode, and never any further - this was essentially the basis for the unofficial MS-DOS 7, which functions quite well in situations where the end user just needs a simple disk operating system to load up programs from the late 80's-mid 90's. Off the top of my head, I can tell you that I have at least 3 customers that are still using DOS 6.2-based cash registers, one customer uses a DOS app to print his checks (which my boss witnessed, and said was the fastest bookkeeping app he's ever seen -- we're used to the sluggishness of quickbooks), and one customer utilizing an ancient application that has some sort of stock algorithm that was never re-written into a modern app (because the algorithm wasn't transcribed to documentation, and the original programmer died) - but the customer bases his entire business as a stock analyst on this one app.
Surprisingly, DOS still has a place in the modern world - hell, it'd be awesome to see Microsoft release some sort of official DOS 9, even this late in the game.