Re: How bad is Torvalds?
And there's still the unanswered chicken-and-egg issue of consumer-oriented non-mobile-friendly software.
Yes but I think the poster was addressing the statement that:
Actually, IIRC, MS-DOS doesn't like modern hardware.
I suppose it depends what is meant by 'doesn't like' as I dare say there are any number of peripherals for which MSDOS device drivers don't exist. MSDOS v7 supports FAT32 and LBA so that means they can handle filesystems up to 16TB so would be fine with most HDDs. If by some miracle/perversion someone(*) is still using MSDOS for something I'd be pretty confident that a brand new off the shelf PC would still do what they want.
It makes me cringe a bit to think of someone doing that but I'm pretty sure all PCs are still compatible with MSDOS.
(*)Actually I do know someone still using it. They use it in a forensic/data recovery environment. That's because it gives better control over the hardware. There's no 'interfering' kernel to get in the way.
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