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From: neese@adaptex.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
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Date: 27 Mar 90 17:20:00 GMT
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Nf-From: adaptex.UUCP!neese    Mar 27 11:20:00 1990


>Microsoft is working on a major upgrade to DOS and I'd like to solicit
>input from the "power user" communitiy.  I've never met a programmer who
>didn't think that they could have "done it better" with regards to someone
>else's product, so here's an opportunity to enlighten us.

1) A more flexible way to allow removeable media support?
2) Bourne shell like features in COMMAND.COM (i.e. wild-cards, meta-char..)
3) No more 1024 cylinder restrictions.  I know this would be more difficult
   to do and keep backward compatiblity, but look hard at this.  A
   resonable restriction would be 4096 cylinders, 64 heads, 64 sectors/trk.
4) Support for more than 2 mass storage devices.
5) A complete MS-DOS development system that would include the tools that makes
   UNIX so nice to develope on (i.e. grep, sed, awk, vi, cut, paste...).
6) A better file system, that would allow unlimited partition sizes.  I know
   this would break some things, but make how about the option anyway.

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer
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