> outsource everything that I either hadn't gotten to yet, or that I didn't want to get to, to DOS.
Good plan.
I think I wrote, circa 2000, that BeOS was the best PC OS I'd ever seen by far -- but the critical lack of apps was a deal-breaker. But if it had a DOS shell, I could still in 1999-2000 have done all my actual work in DOS apps, and just used native BeOS for Internet stuff. But it never got a DOSbox.
Good plan.
I think I wrote, circa 2000, that BeOS was the best PC OS I'd ever seen by far -- but the critical lack of apps was a deal-breaker. But if it had a DOS shell, I could still in 1999-2000 have done all my actual work in DOS apps, and just used native BeOS for Internet stuff. But it never got a DOSbox.