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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: What is the definition of obsolete)
Message-ID: <1991Jan09.100601.3033@kithrup.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 91 10:06:01 GMT
References: <1991Jan06.204401.21579@turnkey.tcc.com> <1991Jan6.232549.2764@isis.cs.du.edu> <1991Jan08.040128.22819@cs.fau.edu>
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In article <1991Jan08.040128.22819@cs.fau.edu> longc@cs.fau.edu (Courtney Long) writes:
>Sorry about a operating system discussion on an ARCHITECHTURE (HARDWARE) 
>forum, but I can't let this one go by.  MS-DOS is NOT anywhere near obsolete
>and I can't believe someone would say this!  There are just too many PC's
>with too little memory and tiny little 808x processors for this to be true.
>And, if MS-DOS were about to become obsolete, there would not be any future
>versions of DOS.

Uhm... hate to break it to you, but those machines with 8086's and 8086's
are obsolete.  (Well, not entirely; the new pen PC's are still a bit too
small for a '286, but give them a year or so.)  If the hardware is obsolete,
I would not be surprised to find an obsolete "OS" running on it.

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