It's cooler to install FreeDOS and install Windows on top of that. That looks nice, though I don't see how it could be useful for anything except playing old games.
I, personally, am highly disappointed when I notice that Notepad today seems to resemble almost completely that old version in Windows 1.01. While it is likely more efficient for most who don't own Office to use Wordpad, which HAS been updated, Microsoft has disappointed me with Notepad. If somebody wants a decent source code editor, which is almost the only purpose for Notepad anymore, he or she is forced to download a third-party program, such as Notepad++ or SciTE. Because Notepad's primary purpose in this time period is to allow composition of source code, I feel Microsoft should completely re-write Notepad's code and make it more friendly for programmers' usage.
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How did I transform this video into a rant about Notepad?
I found an image online, and I'm having some trouble using it with VirtualBox (I think that to solve it, however, I'll just need to convert the image from .img to .iso instead of .img to .vdi). Finding an image on google is actually painful, but looking on youtube (just search "windows 1 virtualbox" or the like) yields videos with tons of links to images.
technomonkey76 wrote:
I, personally, am highly disappointed when I notice that Notepad today seems to resemble almost completely that old version in Windows 1.01. While it is likely more efficient for most who don't own Office to use Wordpad, which HAS been updated, Microsoft has disappointed me with Notepad. If somebody wants a decent source code editor, which is almost the only purpose for Notepad anymore, he or she is forced to download a third-party program, such as Notepad++ or SciTE. Because Notepad's primary purpose in this time period is to allow composition of source code, I feel Microsoft should completely re-write Notepad's code and make it more friendly for programmers' usage.
I don't think that using Notepad as a "Source Editor" was ever microsoft's idea it remains as a very lightweight, extraordinarily simplistic, all-around useful text/data viewer. Very few people compared to the masses use it for source code editing, and in fact, most people don't even use it anymore. I really doubt it has been updated at all since early NT (or earlier) versions of Windows for content, but rather just for compatibility with newer systems. It's just a small extra thing they add into the package for the heck of it, I'm sure.
EDIT: In case you're interested, I've typed all of my reports for school up in Notepad for almost the past 3 years so it is still useful for non-coding related things, for many.
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That looks nice, though I don't see how it could be useful for anything except playing old games. 
it remains as a very lightweight, extraordinarily simplistic, all-around useful text/data viewer. Very few people compared to the masses use it for source code editing, and in fact, most people don't even use it anymore. I really doubt it has been updated at all since early NT (or earlier) versions of Windows for content, but rather just for compatibility with newer systems. It's just a small extra thing they add into the package for the heck of it, I'm sure.
