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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.054449.28590@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:44:49 GMT
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- In article <1i5tblINN694@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
- >[I deleted a lot--I hope the attribution is correct.]
-
- Nope. It was me.
- >|>
- >|> Might I offer a suggestion? Perhaps the
- >|> warning was to prevent the user from installing the DOS6
- >|> beta using the Stacker-like disk compression program. This
- >|> would, quite simply, render OS/2 unusable.
- >
- >Really? I have 260Mb on my system - none of it FAT. If I took one
- >partition--say 20Mb and made it a DOS 6 FAT bootable partition, that
- >would make OS/2 unusable? The compressed FAT partition might not be
- >accessable by OS/2, but that hardly makes OS/2 'unusable.'
-
-
- How stupid of me. Post a message with quite obvious meaning,
- I should have expected that someone would be unable to understand
- it.
-
- Obviously, I was speaking of users that use FAT (and/or dual boot).
-
-
- >By the way, besides disk compression, why would I want DOS 6? What are
- >the features that make me want to change from OS/2? Memory management
- >is a non issue. About the only thing I can think of is if I was
- >developing software and I wanted to check DOS 6 compatability.
-
-
- I can't imagine. I have no use for DOS6 whatsoever. The disk
- compression is not going to be any better than the DRDOS6 (what
- I use, when dual booting) equivalent, and I prefer Stacker
- (which I use instead--anthough 3.0 has left me sort of underwhelmed).
- Memory management is irrelavent--I only dual boot to play OS/2
- incompatible games (Comanche: Maximum Overkill--buy it) and
- run Windows3.1 (which will, hopefully, change when 2.1 comes out)--
- memory management is pretty much irrelavent for either.
-
- I can't imagine that it will offer anything that I'm really
- looking for (to be specific, I'm interested in using volume
- LABELS to reference a disk rather than drive letters, a la
- commodore Amiga, and an assign command that imitates AmigaDos's
- assign command), not is it likely to offer anything that 4dos
- doesn't already (aliases come to mind) offer _right now_.
-
- DOS6 will probably not be the barnstormer that DOS5 was, simply
- because DOS5 is more than good enough for most of the people
- out there running DOS. People running Windows don't need
- to worry about most of the things dos6 offers (other than
- disk compression), as memory management is pretty much irrelaventr
- (and Windows seems to deliver better DOS window sizes than I ever
- got with Desqview, and both pale next to my tweaked OS/2).
-
- DRDOS has been long rumored to be working on a protected
- multitasking version of DRDOS for general release that isn't
- plagued by the incompatibilites that DR's earlier efforts
- in that field had. They've also ben rumored (Novell, now,
- I guess) to be working on a Windows clone. (Although, if
- "Viewmax" is to DOS5's shell that DRWindows is to Windows,
- MS hasn't got a worry in the world).
-
- I suspect neither of these are true. Novell would probably
- be happy to rid itself of the licencing and support headaches
- and just concentrate on it's new UNIX toy.
-
- --
- Blaming "society" for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
- --- boycott == censorship == closed mindedness == cowardice ---
- "Psalms 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."
- Shepherds are for sheep. ----- Pain teaches.
-