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From: steve@wolf.UUCP (Steve Harrison)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: DOS 5.0 & PC Week
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 01:23:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 01:23:11 1986
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I cannot sit back and listen to the things one computer magazine
is saying about a large computer company in the US and it's wonderful
new technological breakthrough in O/S's without making a comment.

PC-Week has hit new limits (depths that is) in managing to talk the
public into believing in a large Blue God!  I am sure this article will
draw some comments by anyone who read the front page story of PC-Week
May 20, 1986.  I think it is time that someone say something and I welcome
all comments from the net.  I intend on summarizing all and sending a letter
off to the editors!

Throughout this article, written by Garry Ray, he talks of the new operating
system which IBM is planning to release, in MARCH 1987!, and how IBM has 
been presenting it to developers and software houses in technical seminars.
"Sources" claim that the new operating system will split the IBM PC product
line.  Does this sound familiar to any of you!

Garry even states at one point, and I quote, "To speed processing of multiple
applications, and to conserve system memory, the operating system will be able
to allocate and deallocate regions of memory based on a least recently used 
algorithm.  For example, should memory be needed by an application, the 
operating system could send a program segment to disk, subsequently reloading
it to memory when needed again".  If this doesn't sound like an operating
system that has been in use for years (say 15!) I must have been on
another world these last 20 years!  Even micros have had capability now for
over three years!

It is time for PC Users to begin to awaken and see the light at the end of the
tunnel.  The operating system that I keep hearing that "power" PC users
want is already there when will someone (maybe AT&T) start informing them
of this?  An operating system due to be released in March 1987 is a rather
ludicrous pie in the sky to wait for when something is already there.

Shame on PC Week for such one sided reporting.  I am beginning to wonder
what type of journalism is practiced there.

To Garry Ray I say, this has been posted from a PC/AT running SCO
XENIX System V that routinely supports (say 6 hours a day) 2 dial-in 
busers and 2 uucp connections.  It can be done now!

AT&T has even moved on to a better scheme that what IBM is proposing for its
"new" DOS.


Steven Harrison
Systems'n'Software

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