Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!ames!haven!mimsy!mojo!SYSMGR@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? Message-ID: <009421D2.34C43620@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> Date: 2 Jan 91 20:52:06 GMT References: <37459@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan02.035501.9457@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>,<1991Jan02.062657.21032@kithrup.COM> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Reply-To: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Organization: The U. of MD, CP, CAD lab Lines: 26 In article <1991Jan02.062657.21032@kithrup.COM>, sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >Agreed, and you point out some of them. My problem with DOS is that I think >its time has passed. Users want/need *more*. OS/2 comes close, I guess, >but I don't think it's quite right (it feels too much like DOS still 8-)). DOS will not truely die until the '286 machines/machines without 4 MB+ of RAM are dead. Even when the '386sxes take over the world, the DOS/Windows combination will still be chugging along for the (near) future (ie: 2-3 years). >For managing the small machine that was the 8088-based IBM PC, DOS is fine. >For handling the not-so-small machine that kithrup is (25MHz '386, 8Mb RAM), >it is not good enough for what I want to do. The 8088-based PC-clone is dead. I looked through the paper on Monday and (surprise) all the PC-shops are now hocking '286 machines; I guess the margins on selling 8088 stuff has fallen down. Not everyone who will use a not-so-small machine is going to want UN*X. Somehow I doubt Radio Shack is going to bundle it with their latest PC boxes. Doug Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park * Ray Kaplan was right *