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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New DOS from Microsoft
Message-ID: <881@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 09:00:39 EST
Article-I.D.: maynard.881
Posted: Fri Mar 27 09:00:39 1987
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Keywords: MS-DOS PC-DOS XENIX DOS oink

In article <285@dlcdev.UUCP> glenn@dlcdev.UUCP (glenn) writes:
>In late Feb at Microsoft's Systems Software Seminar the "New DOS"
>was discussed. From the description:
>
>-  Single-user, multi-tasking
>-  300K to 600K of code? (DOS 3.2 takes about 50K) ...

Oink.

I just checked, and the VENIX/Rainbow kernel occupies less than 43K of code.
VENIX/Rainbow is a real V7 UNIX port -- multi-user, multi-tasking, real pipes,
semaphores, shared memory, virtual consoles, the works.

Again, as I said, oink.
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