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Article #10Re: Quality of DR-DOS 6.0 Software and Service
From: G. Wayne Nichols
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 18:40
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!troi.cc.rochester.edu!gwni From: gwni@troi.cc.rochester.edu (G. Wayne Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Quality of DR-DOS 6.0 Software and Service Message-ID: <1992Oct27.184019.13968@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 27 Oct 92 18:40:19 GMT References: <1992Oct24.192815.8396@super.org> <1992Oct27.174247.11260@cs.uwp.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: troi.cc.rochester.edu