[ros-general] dos support in reactos

[Casper Hornstrup]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-general-bounces at reactos.com [mailto:ros-general-
> bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of theUser BL
> Sent: 26. februar 2004 12:05
> To: ros-general at 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?