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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
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Subject: Re: dosread.c again
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Date: 21 Oct 89 22:36:05 GMT
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cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>This posting is really the definitive statement of disdain for DOS.
>"My knowledge of DOS is zilch, and will stay that way."  For anyone
>to make such a statement, along with the contempt shown in the rest
>of the posting, provides all the evidence needed that elitism has
>a lot more to do with DOS-hatred than anything else.
 
AST isn't the only one that hates MeSs-DOS.  Meet another 'DOS hater' here and
most of our claims for hatred of MeSs-DOS are very well justified considering
its fatal flaws.  It took how long for Micro$haft to break the 32 Mb problem
with DOS?  And I'm not even sure that 4.x does it all that well either.  Now
everybody is trying to break the 640K memory problem, well, it ain't going to
happen because of the fact DOS was designed around an 8086 address space.  Big
bucks are in it for ANY company that makes a 100% (not 80%, 90%, or 95%)
compatable 386 protect mode implementation of DOS.  They are close with
things such as VP/ix, but it's not close enough.  I personally think that DOS
will be chucked eventually since it doesn't even utilitize the power of a 386.
 
>I'm sure that if DOS weren't used by COMMON PEOPLE, the DOS-haters
>would make appropriate criticisms of the many very real deficiencies
>of DOS, and leave it at that.  But as long as someone can learn to
>use a computer without devoting years of their life to it, the
>DOS-haters will remain filled with irrational hatred.
 
I know a lot of common people who will use *nix before even turning on an IBM
clone/compatable.  My boss only uses his IBM AT with a 40 Mb hard drive as a
rolodex under SideKick.  My boss' partner doesn't even like the letters IBM
and is about as technically minded as Dan Quayle is informed of the state of
the union and he prefers *nix based systems.  Hell, I have to kick him off the
SPARCstation 1 just for routine file system maintainance.  DOS for common
people?  Maybe in the past and possibly the present, but now we have chips
out there that DOS can't even push to the limit because of its design flaws.

If I ever manage to get Bill Gates' business card, it's going on my dart
board.  ;)

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