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Re: Quality of DR-DOS 6.0 Software and Service

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From: G. Wayne Nichols
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 18:40
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I've noticed several post recently criticizing DRDOS's editor
(called EDITOR, natcherly). I don't know, it seems to be a standard
Wordstar (V3.3, Non-document mode) clone to me.
If you want a "real" editor, you shouldn't expect it to come with the
Operating System. But EDITOR (and MSDOS's EDIT, of course) is certainly
an improvement over EDLIN!

I view the contest between DRDOS and MSDOS over features, etc.
to be very similar to the competition between Borland's Quattro Pro
and Lotus 1-2-3 (V2.x), respectively. Each one seems to try to leapfrog
the other. Just because there may be an MSDOS 6 soon to be released,
doesn't mean that you should write off the possibility of DRDOS 7.
It seems it took the challenge of DRDOS to get Microsoft to finally put
some effort into improving MSDOS. Long live competition!
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Subject: Re: Quality of DR-DOS 6.0 Software and Service
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