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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcrware!adam
- From: adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg)
- Subject: MS-DOS, Just say "No" (was Re: file positioning with buffered/unbuffered I/O)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.172628.10385@microware.com>
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- Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
- References: <1992Aug10.205740.4357@irscscm.UUCP> <1992Aug25.153322.13793@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <4855@news.duke.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:26:28 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <4855@news.duke.edu> kds@phy.duke.edu (Stokes Kevin) writes:
- >
- > (Christopher H Gregg) writes:
- >
- >>The program is memory resident and it traps......
- >>The problem is that when I try to use either DOS function 13h (delete file)
- >>or DOS function 41h (which I would prefer), the program crashes.
- >
- > Yuck. DOS is a piss-poor excuse for an operation system. My old Data
- >General minicomputer (circa 1972) had a really nice true multi-tasking OS
- >which fit in less than 16k. They should have just ported that. Of course,
- >there is a famous Bill Gates quote "Our goal is for user to not even know
- >there is an operating system there at all." (not exact)
- > In my opinion he has already achieved this with DOS. He has convinced the
- >whole world to use computers with no operation system, just a nice binary
- >loader!
-
- 1) 'nice binary loader': Well...a binary loader for sure. Nice? Hmmm..
-
- 2) Then again, there is the (other) famous Bill Gates quote:
- "It is not possible to have a multi-tasking OS in less than 4MB of
- memory." (Talking about Windows NT & Windows 3.x & Dos)
-
- Right, Bill. The 1972 DG had it, and for that matter, there are still
- fully-functional modern OSs that'll run in <64k (Like Microware's OS9
- for instance [plug])
-
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-
- --
- Adam G.
- adamg@microware.com, or ...!uunet!mcrware!adamg
- The above is not to be construed in any way as the official or unofficial
- statements of Microware, or any Microware employees.
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