Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!mks!alex
From: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS Idea
Summary: hah!
Keywords: MKS with MSC
Message-ID: <548@mks.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 88 03:37:34 GMT
References: <4994@whuts.UUCP> <7501@dasys1.UUCP> <546@mks.UUCP> <1396@stiatl.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <1396@stiatl.UUCP>, john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
> I've been watching this discussion on the various incompatibilities with
> DOS and MKS and the thought just struck me.  Why does not Mortise Kern
> go ahead and turn MKS into a standalone OS?  Hmmmmm...  You guys already
	i) You have to be kidding yourself if you think this would ever be
	   commercially viable.
	ii) Any idea of how many different inconsistent incompatible
	    illegal stupid etc. way various programs use DOS?
	iii) Its been done. (e.g. Wendin).  We haven't noticed any particular
	     success by them.
	iv) Its already being done by microsoft.  Its called OS/2.
	    Now OS/2 is pretty bad, but a lot of the work that went into it went
	    into the silly compatability box, which is just what we'd have to
	    do as well.