new to os

[Rod Person]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT)
scott mcclellan <rockabyeinn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm
> going through a midlife crisis). 
> Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate
> back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on
> a TRS-80). 

Ah, I remember those days, but FreeBSD's is not based on DOS, it based on Unix. 
If you want to relive DOS I'd suggest try FreeDOS http://www.freedos.org/

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