RE: [ros-general] dos support in reactos

[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-general-bounces(a)reactos.com [mailto:ros-general-
>  bounces(a)reactos.com] On Behalf Of theUser BL
>  Sent: 26. februar 2004 12:05
>  To: ros-general(a)reactos.com
>  Subject: RE: [ros-general] dos support in reactos
>  
> >  Why waste your time with DOS? There is already
> > FreeDOS freely available. 
>  
>  Short answer: Because WinNT, Win2k and WinXP support DOS, two. 
Microsoft Windows support a lot of things that ReactOS will never support.

>   
>  Longer answer: Because there existing still a lot of programs created for
>  DOS, Win16 and so on. And it would be nice, to can all this older programs
>  run. 
Is it really worth the thousands of hours of work and added complexity of
ReactOS?