DOS is dead but so what? DOS is dead only if you want to put software on the market. In every other respect it's alive. It still works fine on the latest Intel and (Intel clone) hardware. Right now I'm running a 450 MHz Pentium II on which I can dual boot to Windows 98 or to DOS. I've I've written a library to address extended memory in real mode, so I don't need a DOS extender in order to take control of my total machine.
Some people may think I'm simply being perverse by resisting present trends in operating systems and they may even be right, but who cares? If I followed the crowds I wouldn't be making art by writing programs either. I live in the modern world, but I'm basically old-fashioned. I grew up in the era of radio, before television, and I think of that as a blessing. I like jazz and not rock and roll, hip hop or rap. I like DOS and not Windows. I make art by a totally radical method but it isn't multimedia, it's not interactive, and it's not animated. However radical the method, the end result is old-fashioned, 2D, hang-it-on-the-wall imagery that just sits there and doesn't move. My software has a text-based interface. My website has more words than pictures. I like reading more than television. But at the same time I love movies, computers and the visual stimulation of art. And I'm glad I have lived into the age of cheap powerful computers as this has liberated my creative impulses.