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From: philf@med-isg.uucp (Phil Fernandez)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Sharing Interfaces
Message-ID: <23237@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Aug 88 18:27:07 GMT
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In article <8808050336.AA06496@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> philipp@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") writes:
>

> <some good points about MAC/Vector omitted>
>
>Lastly, supporting DOS 3.X wasn't worth the trouble.  There isn't
>enough memory to make having multiple applications resident
>feasible, so why restrict yourself to it? 

I disagree with this entirely.  3Com told me this same thing.  There are
some *very* valuable applications under DOS, at least in our
environment.  For example, we often want to FTP a file to/from a 3Com
virtual drive.  This would easily run in 640K.

Supporting DOS would definitely be worth the trouble!

pmf