Windoze has some advantages, but if you're talking to hardware, it just plain
sucks. When you are doing one thing on one computer and need to do real-time
things quickly and efficiently, you need an operating system that does not
fight with you. The various DOSes may not be much, but at least they don't
virtualize the world and disallow all contact with the actual hardware in the
machine. If you disagree, please go away. This page is for my own use
anyway.