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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: BYTE Fesses up!
Message-ID: <6826@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 24 Aug 88 04:42:40 GMT
References: <4547@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <4547@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) wrote:

> The latest BYTE (a 30 minute's read) reports in their OS/2 column that MS-DOS
> really isn't an operating system, but in fact just a program loader.  [...]
> now there's something more expensive available to replace MS-DOS?

OS/2 can't replace Mess-DOS!  Where will the database guys do their
work?  Last I heard, OS/2 only supported file systems less than 32meg
(because it used the Mess-DOS 3.x file system), whereas Mess-DOS v4.0
can handle your average 40meg drive now. :-)
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