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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hacktic!utopia!global!peter
- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
- Keywords: Unknown
- Message-ID: <1@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 14:13:47 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
- Organization: Global Village 1
- Lines: 34
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- nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO BAR---NUNN) writes:
-
- > Here a few summary points about BIOS:
-
- > - BIOS is a pig,
- > - BIOS is a pig,
- > - BIOS is a pig and
- > - BIOS is a pig.
- NO NO! It's a great bootstrap loader (if you forget a few bugs) which is used
- by all operating systems to load the kernel and it is ignored forever after
- that.
-
- > - MSDOS has got the worst Memory manager,
- Gee, I didn't knew that MooSe-DOS had ANY memory manager...
-
- >CONCLUSION:
-
- > Microsoft!!....invent UNIX and make it free. The UNIX system is perfect,
- >nothing beats UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
- Oh come on! You wouldn't want Microsoft to do that! You'd get something like
- Windows/NT... ;-)
-
- BTW, good point, UNIX *WAS* implemented properly. I don't think SYSVr4 is that
- proper anymore.
-
- >If you can't do that, give us the source code for messy. At least that way,
- >32 bits hackers can built it 32 bits.
- Why bother with an old program loader when there are FREE (or cheap) UNIX
- implementations availlable right now. Tune in on comp.os.linux and find out
- about this wonderful free UNIX clone. It has X-Windows, GCC 2.2.2, SCSI
- support, virtual terminals, UUPC, and almost everything but networking.
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
-