China DOS Union

Sorry, I'm a newbie and don't understand anything, so it's hard for me to offer any suggestions or opinions,

Whether to pour a little cold water or splash some cold water, that's the question I'm considering.
Promoting and popularizing DOS itself has no meaning.
If you ask people who started using computers by only clicking a mouse to learn DOS, it's not that they refuse to learn—but what would they learn it for?

If the book does come out, I will definitely support it, but what would the purchasing method be? How big a market does DOS still have now? What we should consider is not the attitude of the members present, but rather market information, because publishing a book is definitely not something a few hundred yuan can make happen. In DOS's current situation, how many sets could be sold? Could we even recover the cost?
I suggest making it into a shared form: only let members download it on the website, and then adopt the principle of voluntary donations to the forum. That way what we pay out is only time and existing resources, and it can also attract people who are truly interested in DOS to join. Why not do that!

I think the main direction should be placed on DOS systems with Chinese support, but it has to be flexible and agile. If it gets made too big, then it won't be much different from windows. A system similar to windows_pe should be made. As for multimedia functions, they can be added later in the form of tool software. The trend of computer development now is toward networking and graphical interface operation. The operating system should be able to fully bring out the characteristics of flexibility and agility, and run universally on 286----686---and higher-level computers. There shouldn't be too many functions; they can be added flexibly later. The functions and the kernel should learn from the ideas of iwndows_pe. The kernel should be editable with something like DOS batch statements (which most people can understand), and that would make it easier to keep it flexible and agile.

I think we still ought to pay attention to DOS programming, not just introducing other people's excellent software, but also teaching us how to develop our own software. But we have too few experts, and many real DOS experts don't seem to be playing with DOS anymore. Weren't many of our country's excellent software products developed a long time ago? Top software vendors such as symantec, Microsoft, and adobe no longer provide any support for DOS.
Many excellent DOS software vendors have also already

At the time I only wanted to make boot screens for dos win95 win98 winme　
but I was also very happy that the boot disk section had become the biggest, hehe

I'm a newbie. I only started learning computer knowledge from the day I bought a computer (two years ago)
When the computer came home I only knew how to click with the mouse
I didn't even know how to use Ctrl+Alt+Del, let alone DOS!
I borrowed a <> training tutorial (Level 1) from a friend before I learned commands like FORMAT FDISK
CD and so on

So: the book should go from shallow to deep
the disc should have basics, substance, research, and general usefulness

In that way it can be an official book and official disc, but without infringing rights.

What I'm saying may be......

If you're going to publish a book, then it should be one that's easy to understand and practical.

How should I put it!!! I have a lot of affection for DOS!!! When I first started using computers, I started from DOS6.0. Later, whenever Microsoft released a new product, my heart would stir. From the first time I came into contact with Win31, I was deeply attracted by this multitasking graphical operating system. I still remember when 95 had just come out—just to upgrade my Win32 to 95, I stubbornly spent an entire night on it (if I remember right, it seemed to be more than 30 disks). Later, from 98\2000\XP all the way to today's 2003, usability has felt stronger and stronger, but when crashes happen, the possibility of recovery gets smaller and smaller, so DOS has always remained my first choice for solving problems. But I still think that at present, DOS can only be accepted as a way of maintaining computers. If we were asked to go backward and start using DOS again, I don't think anyone would do that!!! That would only make technology fall further behind. Think about why Microsoft doesn't support DOS: because it really is outdated. With that kind of time, I advise everyone that instead of spending it developing DOS resources, it would be better to develop LINUX or Solaris, because no matter how you look at it, LINUX is a sunrise industry, while Solaris offers such powerful networking applications and security. Everyone can think it over carefully!!!

I'm new here. After reading your views, I think charging a certain fee is proper. After all, the forum still has to grow in the future! If there isn't enough space, it has to be bought with money! You can't always make the webmaster pay for it, right? Publishing a book is fine too. But it has to be an official one!

What I value in DOS is its boot disks; I can't think of anything else. For networking I like BSD. I just want to learn how to make boot disks! After all, DOS is already a thing of the past, and its development potential is limited! Being able to make boot disks for daily testing of various problems is already very good. With a single function and a specialized focus, that's the only way to keep going!

Webmaster, you've worked hard!!

1. About the boot disk
Is it all kinds of boot disks in different styles? Or one truly universal super boot disk? I lean toward the latter.
But thinking about it carefully: it really would be very hard to do!
Looking at the goal: integrating booting, maintenance, networking, and multimedia learning into one. Leaving aside the first two, making the last two universal would probably be difficult, right? Networking is diverse nowadays, and multimedia is even more dazzling and hard to satisfy everyone on. I don't think there's much need to consider multimedia content in a boot disk; after all, that's not what a boot disk is good at.

2. How many people would need the book and CD? My impression of CDU's growth is still rather vague. Of course a commemorative item would be welcome. Actually, I joined this forum mainly out of a sense of nostalgia~
If there really is a publisher now asking for a DOS book, then this really does need discussion

3. About the future focus of the DOS Union: ?! I don't know. I've always been confused
The development of forums is always like this:
After a certain point, experts and forum veterans start to feel: "You've seen how posts have started to become saturated recently, right? There aren't any innovative posts anymore. There are a lot of posts that I don't even want to reply to after reading. It's all repetitive and low-level questions"
If no newcomers join and there is no reserve梯队, the forum will decline...
Only when experts teach the "intermediate hands," and the "intermediate hands" teach the less skilled, can the forum develop in a healthy way. Newly grown members are often enthusiastic about helping even newer members; that lets them test their own knowledge and feel a little sense of achievement....
Speaking of programming, I still have a little "experience" programming under DOS, though I don't know much about system programming, but I really do want to do something for DOS!
To develop DOS software, you first have to solve the question of what to do, and whether it can be better than what already exists. If there is already a tiny program under WINDOWS using DLLs, then if you make some DOS program that's even bigger, will anyone want it?

I don't know that much about DOS, so I can't really say much. Right now I just want to study DOS properly,