🚀 go-pugleaf

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:

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

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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