Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!isi.edu!gremlin!nrtc!maurit From: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit ) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Where is the long awaited MS DOS 5.0 ? Message-ID: <14403@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> Date: 13 Dec 90 19:46:21 GMT References: <8550@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Sender: news@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com Reply-To: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit) Organization: Northrop Research & Technology Center, Palos Verdes, CA Lines: 36 In article josef@nixpbe.nixdorf.de (josef Moellers) writes: > >I find this amusing! >Evereybody claims that MSDOS is superior to UN*X, as >- it runs on small disks >- it runs in barely 1M of memory > >But in the meantime, everybody is waiting for new releases with more and >better features that closely resemble those features that our beloved >UN*X has! > >I see the day coming that MSDOS finally catches up with UN*X having all >the features the users want! But then >- You'll need LARGE disks (Already MSDOS is breaking the 40MB barrier) >- You definitely need more than 1M of memory. > >-- > Joe Joe I dont think anyone ever expects for DOS to even start to get close to UNIX as to functionality - that's for OS/2 (dont take this as being pro-OS/2, Im just stating a fact). What a number of us are excited about is that 5.0 will be a reverse of the "bigger is better" trend, in that 5.0 is smaller and can be loaded in high memory. It all comes down to applications. If I can run the applications I need in DOS and not in UNIX, then Ill choose DOS every time, no matter how technologically superior UNIX may be. On another note, I posted last week that I was attending MicroSoft 5.0 demo, and that I'd post an evaluation here. Sorry guys, the flu bug shot me down. Mark maurit@nrtc.northrop.com