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From: ben@val.com (Ben Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Keywords: future DOS release
Message-ID: <1990Mar28.010044.5653@val.com>
Date: 28 Mar 90 01:00:44 GMT
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smw@maxwell.Concordia.CA ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:

>>9)  An OS where developers don't have to cheat to get decent performance.

Or, perhaps more importantly, how about an OS that DOCUMENTS EVERYTHING.
so that programmers don't HAVE to cheat...

>I wonder if it would pay for Microsoft to license some of the Norton Utilities
>(LD, FS, FA, etc. come to mind at this point...)

Or perhaps use XTREE as a guideline...

>>16) Virtual memory management.
>Indeed!  Why not?

Definitely!


Oh and how about adding a simple scheduler that could manage multiple
tasks that live in EMM?  Like QEMM?


>>17) And, of course, all of this without using up any more precious memory,
>>    faster, more compatible, more powerful, and easier to install and use.

>If only it were possible...

Aye, there's the rub...


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