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From: Greg.Smith@p11.f477.n104.z1.METRONET.ORG (Greg Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Where is The Long Awaited Ms Dos 5.0 ?
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Date: 3 Jan 91 09:01:00 GMT
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In a message to All <03 Jan 91 00:38> Charlie Sorsby wrote:

 CS> Well, just a few thoughts.  I really don't mean to start an OS war.
 CS> I'd really like to know what about DOS is perceived as being easier
 CS> to learn than it's Unix counterpart.
Well, I'm not up for any OS war either so here is my opinion.  I believe that dos is easier to learn for some people because it is made similar to the old CP/M os of ancient machines.  Back then, I don't know if unix existed or if computers were even capable of it, but CP/M was one of the main operating systems.  Many people were forced to use it.  The transition became easy, thus many people knew how to use dos.  As for learning dos, I think that many people do have trouble with it.  Some of the commands 








are lengthy and boring to type.  That has to be one of the main reasons.  As for me, I didn't learn dos to a really great extent until I came upon 4Dos.  It allowed me to do such things as aliasing and command re-assignment.  I now have this computer setup to take commands such as mv, ls, and so on.  In other words, I'm a dos user rooting for unix in the easier to learn field...  

                                        Greg

P.S.  I have a command which does the same as unix's "cat", but it is called "y"!  Now, where could they get that name from...  (I'll change it now as cat makes more sense).


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