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FreeDOS 1.0 Released
Noksagt writes, "FreeDOS 1.0 has been released only a little bit later than planned. The 1.0 milestone is considered to be 'a stable and viable MS-DOS replacement' and features long filename support, HIMEM and EMM386 management, and CD-ROM support."
Free DOS, something like mess-dos? Just say No!
What? It took them 10 years to implement a DOS clone? Congrats for the most useless software project of the 21st century. DOS was never state of the art, not when it was on sale, not even when conceived by Tim Paterso, who was only too well aware it was a Qick and Dirty hack (hence the letters Q and D in its intiaial name, QDOS).
Programs that depend on the mouse are for idiots. Power users remove their hands from the keyboards as little as possible and worthwhile applications require the use of the mouse as little as possible. A well designed application can be operated MUCH faster with the keyboard than with the mouse.
Seriously man, there is no such thing as a power mouser. You can pretty up the interface and make it mouse accessible but you still need the keyboard interface to match. The same keystrokes should produce the same result.