> They are a return to the magical feeling of computers of the 80s and 90s. It’s a world where Microsoft and Apple never existed and we don’t have to suffer with abstractions on top of abstractions. It’s DOS for the 2020s
Does the author know who wrote DOS? Microsoft and Apple were essencial to the magic of that era of computing.
It’s a genuine question, someone born in the 2000s is 23 now and will have only experienced that age indirectly.
I do, but they made it popular. I'd much rather CP/M had won, not some quick and dirty clone, but that's besides the point.
The “DOS for the 2020s” being anti-Microsoft and Apple makes no sense to me. Also, DOS was the mainstream, not some retro-cyberpunk thing. Again, makes no sense at all to me.
Looks like it was, though, unless you mean the "jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM" bit.
Edit: to clarify, when people say "DOS", 99.999% of the time they mean MS-DOS, not the generic "disk operating system", which is a category and wasn't developed by anyone in particular.
Does the author know who wrote DOS? Microsoft and Apple were essencial to the magic of that era of computing.
It’s a genuine question, someone born in the 2000s is 23 now and will have only experienced that age indirectly.