Engadget:
So, BBM and a native email client for the BlackBerry PlayBook would be nice, but what we have today is a step in a completely different direction. DOSBox, everyone’s favorite open-source x86 emulator, has been successfully ported to RIM’s QNX-based tablet, bringing with it MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 support.
Well, that’s an improvement.
In RIM’s defense, there’s a *lot* of competetion for being at the cutting edge of technology, but very little for being at the back edge. They’re just trying to move into markets where they won’t have competetion (apparently).
Unbefarginlievable! I can just see the CEOs of RIM now: “Hey, what’s this DOS thing? We could build an entire phone OS around that. Let’s do it, we can announce tomorrow!”
Well you see, now you can use Telnet to access your email, or perhaps Pine. No more lack of native email now, bahahahaha.
Why the f-bomb would anyone waste time porting the saddest command line system of command line systems ever made? It’s ridiculous.
At one point in the late 90s, I had a beige PowerMac, a Windows box and a Linux Mandrake box all running at home. After a few hours playing with the CL of Linux (never having experienced UNIX) I could not for the life of me understand how anyone on the PC side of the house thought DOS (in late 80s) was a more powerful environment than the Mac OS when DOS couldn’t even be bothered to emulate the actual usefulness of a true CL as on UNIX/Linux.
As an aside, how funny is now, for this last decade of Mac OS X, that we not only have on the Mac arguably the best desktop UI, but also a real gods damned CL environment based on the most venerable OS in existence? And Windows still has DOS.
Finally a decent OS on this tablet. Sheesh.