Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi
From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640kb limit on DOS?
Message-ID: <5161@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 14:22:17 GMT
References: <8043@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <45900179@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <3545@nicmad.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 13

In article <3545@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Vidiot (Vid-e-it)) writes:
>Sorry, I should have included the UNIX operating systems.  But the original
>poster was talking about DOS, and OS/2 is supposed to be the next generation
>DOS.  Excuse me if I don't think so.

It's not clear to me why OS/2 should be considered a "next generation
DOS", considering it is designed primarily for the the nearly-obsolete
80286 processor, cannot take advantage of better architectures such as
the 80386 and the 68030, provides no virtual memory, is not available
in source form, and cannot support multiple users with any reasonable
protection mechanism.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi