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Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS?
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Date: 8 Jan 91 21:33:21 GMT
References: <1991Jan02.035501.9457@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> <14900021@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1991Jan6.183213.27136@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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In article <1991Jan6.183213.27136@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> convex.cl.msu.edu!jap (Joe Porkka) writes:
>If anybody wants to claim that MSDOS is good, especially considering
>*when* it came into existance, and the hardware it had to work on,
>I tell them to take a look at OS/9 on the RadioShack TRS-80
>ColorComputer.
>
>Preemptive multitasking, resource tracking, MultiUser, etc. etc.
>all in 64K of RAM on a 6809 processor. (No additional ROM either).

Gee, I almost forgot about good ol OS/9 on the CoCo ... but you have to
be fair.  MS-DOS was designed to be CP/M compatable (initially) and
therefore had the "program loader limitation" graven in stone.  Add to
that the fact that Intel's 8088 is a dog, voila, you have MS-DOS.

-- 
Michael Stefanik, Systems Engineer (JOAT), Briareus Corporation
UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
--
technoignorami (tek'no-ig'no-ram`i) a group of individuals that are constantly
found to be saying things like "Well, it works on my DOS machine ..."