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- From: SXMRP@orca.alaska.edu (Michael R. Platzke)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows 4.0 (really DOS 6.0)
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 01:06:13 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.041115.11752@CS.ORST.EDU>
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- In article <1992Aug25.041115.11752@CS.ORST.EDU> gonzalm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Mario Gonzales) writes:
- >From: gonzalm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Mario Gonzales)
- >Subject: Windows 4.0 (really DOS 6.0)
- >Date: 25 Aug 92 04:11:15 GMT
-
-
- >I have heard from a reliable source that Dos 6.0 will be a step by MS to
- >counteract what DRDOS 7.0? will have by the way of features + a way for
- >MS to play catch up with DRDOS 6.0. Some of the new features of
- >MS DOS 6.0 are to be Disk Doubler Drive Compression, Norton Speedisk,
- >CP Backup, Anti Virus... Also a serial network with a server and client
- >included in dos.. (to counteract Novells intorduction of possible
- >novell lite in DRDOS 7.0).
-
- >Also MSDOS 6.0 will take the NDOS (ala 4dos) approach I belive..
-
- >From what I have heard it sounds like MS is in the business of buying MSDOS
- >6.0 from Symantec, Central Point, etc... What ever happend to them writing
- >the OS? Well if the "improvements" to windows are any indication then I
- >think it is best to have MS purchase MSDOS 6.0 and sell it as theirs! :-)
-
- What exactly is it that you want out of DOS 6.0? IMHO, MS should spend as
- little time as possible on DOS. The 6.0 version sounds to me as exactly you
- described, something to keep up with DRDOS. People complain about Win 3.X
- being a cludge becaus it attempts to do multiprocessing on top of a single
- processing, 16 bit OS. Imagine the complaints if MS tried to upgrade DOS
- to 32 bits with installable files systems, etc. It would be an ugly and
- probably unworkable kludge. If you have a 286 system, continue to use MS or
- DR DOS and your older apps, they still work great. If you have a 386 or
- better system, go with Win 3.1 or OS/2. OS/2, in paticular, does great DOS
- work and integrates well. If you have the system for it, run NT. It really
- is designed to take advantage of all the advances that have taken place and
- will take place (distributed computing, multiprocessor systems, multiple
- platforms, etc.). Why do people demand that MS constantly try to upgrade an
- OS that should have died years ago?
-
- >Cute Bill... How about UNIX, Novell 4.0, Desqview X, and OS/2 all bundled
- >together as Windows FX 1.0 - Needing the New P5 running at 95 mhz with
- >120 MB of ram and taking 230 MB of Disk Space...
-
- Sounds a lot like NT (very UNIX like, integrated networking, OS/2 1.X
- compatibility...) The hardware requirements are not that bad. I would
- much rather see MS work on an NT that has great future expandibility rather
- than great compatibility (I know, thats just my opinion). I'd also rather
- see MS continue to work on NT and not devote as much resources to DOS, a
- dead OS.
-
- -Michael R. Platzke (sxmrp@orca.alaska.edu)
-