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From: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim Antonov)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: What is the definition of obsolete)
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.090835.3783@hq.demos.su>
Date: 12 Jan 91 09:08:35 GMT
References: <3120@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11143@lanl.gov>
Organization: DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
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What are you talking about? If your data is worthless to you,
MS-DOS is your choice for sure. Numerous viruses, *real* (ha, ha!)
mode of operation, TSRs and rather cretinistic file system make
this DOS pretty unuseable for any serious job. Moreover I cannot say
I always dreamed to spend my life playing Big Brother's toys.

I cannot say either I'm a Unix fanatic (having nine years spent with it
I *may* say it) but I'm quite sure the next one will not have the name
"OS/2" or "MS Windows". Of course these beasts will be still popular
between suits preferring to think lesser. It's not a matter of technology,
it's rather a matter of mental orientation - Unix provides an environment
suggesting users to think, Messy-Dossy creatures assume that user do not
think at all. That's the difference.

Vadim Antonov
DEMOS, Moscow, USSR

PS. Being a general in F-19 simulator I cannot say I don't like MS-DOS :-)
    I like this toybox, babe!