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From: person@plains.UUCP (Brett G. Person)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: CDSPACE...
Keywords: cd, dos, space, stuff, junk, nothing, everything, :)
Message-ID: <4906@plains.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 05:45:09 GMT
References: <13278@ttidca.TTI.COM> <227@demott.COM> <2165@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil>
Reply-To: person@plains.UUCP (Brett G. Person)
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Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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Following this thread brings up an intersting point.  Just how different are
the various versions of DOS?  
I once had a paper (from somewhere on simtel?) that talked about the
diffreent versions of dos.  I was surprised at how the companies had managed
to mangle thrir own distribution compatibility wise! 

Why the heck isn't there just *one* dos?  Or at least some attempt to
standardise things a little.

lease note that I could be way off base with this, since it was several
monts ago when I read what I seem to remember reading.

Anyway, my original question still stands.  Why so many different flavors?
-- 
Brett G. Person
North Dakota State University
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