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From: bradley@cs.utexas.edu (Bradley L. Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Keywords: future DOS release
Message-ID: <169@qt.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 90 23:27:08 GMT
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In article <53686@microsoft.UUCP> gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN) writes:
>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.
>

I realize I'm living in a fantasy land, but...

How about full support for 80386/486 and true multitasking, but without all
the baggage associated with O/S2?


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