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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Portable OS's (was: Re: Do OS's slow down with age?)
Message-ID: <2182@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 23:05:48 GMT
References: <209@imspw6.UUCP> <12872@steinmetz.ge.com> <370@siswat.UUCP> <2862@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <579@mcl.UUCP> <226@gp.govt.nz>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <226@gp.govt.nz> gpwrdcs@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, Govt Print, Wellington) writes:
}In article <579@mcl.UUCP>, stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions) writes:
}as the MS-DOS does not acheive this basic aim ... to do anything useful under
}MS-DOS you have to go straight into the hardware and control the machine
}directly, and occasionally modify the OS accordingly.  On a *REAL* OS, there
}is never any need to do this.

On *REAL* OS it is not possible to do this! (Access hardware directly that
is.)  :-)


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