Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!pnl From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Kb or kb (was Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0) Message-ID: <35010010@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 29 Aug 90 17:58:54 GMT References: <1990Aug27.122011.9017@canterbury.ac.nz> Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 42 I've asked this question twice with no answer; and I'm going to ask it again ! With DR DOS loaded and about 620 Kb free, CAN YOU RUN WINDOWS 3.0 in 386 ENHANCED MODE ? If NOT, than it is just TOO BAD, and looks like DR misses the boat again. > Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. wrote ..... > > I personally think it is the responsibility of the operating system to > recognise the extra memory, quite apart from the slight efficiency gains in > putting such stuff into the o/s rather than an add-on product. This isn't to > say these products aren't wonderful, rather Microsoft has been dragging its > feet (in my humble opinion) for too long. > I agree completely (also that Microsoft was dragging their feet). However, there's a distinction between theoretical/academic computer science and practical/real-world computer science. Basically, in my opinion, IBM PC and MS-DOS provides an environment where all the sins in computer science were committed :-). The BIOS is too slow, so people pokes the hardware directly. The OS is a dog so people patched and hack it to speed. BUT ! MS-DOS become the standard and CP/M-86 is forgotten. In fact, I thought CP/M was much better designed than MS-DOS. It is re-entrant and task switching overhead is low. BUT ! Like I said, they missed the boat because they are not MS-DOS compatible. Now, the world is jumping on the Windows 3.0 platform. Is DR DOS going to miss the boat again ? Anybody want to supply the answer ? Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include