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From: david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <1991May12.054801.1827@kessner.denver.co.us>
Date: 12 May 91 05:48:01 GMT
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In article <1991May10.003301.7881@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) writes:
>Exactly.  Take a look at the BIOS serial driver some time, and have a good
>laugh.  The other problem is that when BIOS or DOS did manage to do what you
>wanted, it was dog slow doing it.

I have.  In fact, my serial routine C library was posted on
comp.os.msdos.programmer.  I wrote them simply because the BIOS was bad
at that sort of thing.


>That's not why the BIOS is part of MS-DOS, it's why MS-DOS is such a miserable
>excuse for an OS.

It's not the only reason MS-DOS is bad-- but just another in the long list.
It just goes to show you that the very first design must be great otherwise
everything else fails...  In this case MS-DOS.  But MS-DOS has other problems.


>Me: Brandon S. Allbery			  Ham: KB8JRR/AA  10m,6m,2m,220,440,1.2
>Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG		       (restricted HF at present)
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