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- From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Subject: DOS responsible for cheap hardware? (was FCC etc)
- In-Reply-To: bobatk@microsoft.com's message of 28 Dec 92 20:05:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.040541.20584@grebyn.com>
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- Sender: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu>
- <1992Dec22.214057.5756@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- <1992Dec28.200542.20555@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:05:41 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec28.200542.20555@microsoft.com> bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson) writes:
-
- > Richard Warner writes:
- > >The downturn on pricing has to do with hardware competition, and has
- > >nothing to do with MS.
- >
- > Would the "hardware competion" have been anywhere near as intense as
- > we presently find without a common OS that they all share?
-
- It's the common hardware definition that allows such a thin "OS" to
- support so many applications. DOS provides virtually no hardware
- abstraction (beyond the filesystem) for applications, therefore they
- are dependent more upon a common hardware definition than a common OS.
-
- That common OS, DOS, didn't really permit any non-hardware-clone x86
- computers, like the DEC Rainbow (8088+Z80, enhanced graphics & text
- capabilities) or Tandy 1000 (fast 80186 PC with advanced graphics) to
- succeed, did it? We might have had more powerful hardware now if
- these machines had been able to compete.
- --
- Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
- OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
-