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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- References: <jbickers.0m7q@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec28.153620.13038@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1hnj22INNkan@uwm.edu> <1992Dec28.225314.27426@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0mbc@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 10:04:06 PST
- Organization: TAP
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- Quoted from <1992Dec28.225314.27426@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> by ccb8m@onyx.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy):
-
- > It provides a tree structured filesystem, stream I/O and peripheral
- > management services. It provides memory management, TSR support and
-
- As far as peripheral management goes, from inception it appears
- that people have considered its screen and comms IO broken,
- because few programs use the OS for it.
-
- It has a file system because without files there are no programs
- to load. "TSR support" is an aspect of program loading.
-
- > yes even Networking support :)
-
- On the machines here, this is actually external to DOS itself.
-
- > Just because MS-DOS is an aging OS doesn't negate its contribution
- > to computing history.
-
- That is not the argument here...
-
- > It was and still IS an OS...
-
- ...and this is a seperate claim, which in turn is slightly
- different from the claim that MS-DOS is and was a _broken_ OS, and
- now is not considered by the industry to be a worthwhile OS
- either.
-
- > Charles C. Bundy IV
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