🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4855@news.duke.edu> kds@phy.duke.edu (Stokes Kevin) writes:
>
>   (Christopher H Gregg) writes:
>
>>The program is memory resident and it traps......
>>The problem is that when I try to use either DOS function 13h (delete file)
>>or DOS function 41h (which I would prefer), the program crashes.
>
>  Yuck.  DOS is a piss-poor excuse for an operation system.  My old Data
>General minicomputer (circa 1972) had a really nice true multi-tasking OS 
>which fit in less than 16k.  They should have just ported that.  Of course, 
>there is a famous Bill Gates quote "Our goal is for user to not even know 
>there is an operating system there at all."   (not exact)
>  In my opinion he has already achieved this with DOS.  He has convinced the
>whole world to use computers with no operation system, just a nice binary
>loader!

1) 'nice binary loader':  Well...a binary loader for sure.  Nice?  Hmmm..

2) Then again, there is the (other) famous Bill Gates quote:
       "It is not possible to have a multi-tasking OS in less than 4MB of
       memory." (Talking about Windows NT & Windows 3.x & Dos)

   Right, Bill.  The 1972 DG had it, and for that matter, there are still
   fully-functional modern OSs that'll run in <64k (Like Microware's OS9
   for instance [plug])




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