🚀 go-pugleaf

 In article <1772@frackit.UUCP>, dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
 > In article <1992Nov6.020133.29137@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh) writes:
 > > baloo@mik.uky.edu  writes:
 > > > Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask, and do away with the 640k memory barrier?
 > > > If not I won't believe it.  Dos has gotten so far behind the times.  I'm
 > > > completely sick and tire of 'out of memory messages'  I'll have to switch
 > > > to unix if dos 6.0 doesn't shape up.  
 > 
 > I switched to Unix. And I feel muuuuuuch better now. :)
 > 
 > > What about OS/2.  You get DOS, OS/2 and Windows compatability for a 
 > > lot cheaper tha unix. 
 > 
 > Ahem..... Allow me to present you with:
 > 
 
The following should say CONSENSYS. Sorry about that. My brain went on
hiatus fora minute. It was all this talk about MS-DOS that did it :)

 > Coherant (if you can deal with nearly zero after market support unless
 >           you pay through the nose for it)

It won't happen again, HONEST!

 > MWC (Decent from what I've been told and getting better)
 > 
 > Linux (Ask around. It has a loyal following on the net - see newsgroup
 >        comp.os.linux for more.)
 > 
 > > Especially considered that IBM's newer version
 > > of OS/2 should be due out first Quarter '93, fixing bugs that are
 > > inherent in all versions of an OS.
 > 
 > You mean like NT was due out 4th Q/92? Riiiiiight. MS = More Slippage
 > 
 > >  With DOS 6 who knows what you'll get.
 > 
 >  Everyone knows what you get with any version of DOS. Another OS release
 > that will have bugs they don't want to acknowledge but will charge you
 > substantial $$$ to upgrade away from when they finally fix them. 
 > 
 > I really wonder if MS is aware that a substantial number of their
 > customers are aware of how OS's function beyond a fancy GUI? We're not
 > as stoopid [tm] as they think we are. 
 > 
 > Yes, I run DOS here and I also run CP/M-86 on a Seiko 8610 but my REAL
 > computer runs Unix and thanks me for it daily :)
 > 
 
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