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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.221711.4075@sequent.com>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 22:17:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.054449.28590@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >In article <1i5tblINN694@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
- >
- > 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).
- >
-
- That's true. The only thing that would keep many people in the DOS
- market and let them throw away 5.0 is multi-tasking. Well, they
- have OS/2 2.x... Reason enough.
-
- > 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).
- >
-
- That little goodie will never fly. It is my understanding it grew
- out of a hissy fit Ray Noorda threw after not getting his way with
- Bill Gates, (as if most people can get their way with him). :)
-
- Let's face it. If they want to reverse engineer Windows. Great. Let
- them go for it. But, what can Novell offer in WIndows that
- Microsoft can not ? Netware ? That's an amusing thought, IPX an
- improvement over TCP/IP :):). True multi-tasking ? Better thread
- protection ?.
-
- I think the answer is spelled 'O' 'S' '2'....
-
-
- > 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.
- >
- >--
-
- Novell does not even recognize UNIX as an OS. That's why they want
- to gut unix and place it into Netware rather than the other way
- around.
-
-
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