Re: DOS is dead.

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From: Charles Fee
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:27

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In article <1992Apr16.025838.17912@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au>,
trappetj@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (John Trappett @ Telecom Australia) says:
>Sure gets my vote for Dork poster of the week!

Huh?  The GOD of Packet drivers is a dork?

     It is my opinion that the hodgepodge of kludges that is DOS is now
indeed dead (If it is really anything more than a glorified bootstrap
loader, anyway.) The Success of MS-Windows, and hopefully OS/2 along with
the imminent release of several free Unixes (sp?) the mainstream PC market
will abandon Intel's heretical chips and venture into the promised land of
huge memory models and preemptive multitasking.  I am going to OS/2 2.0 and I
also have windows 3.1 as a fallback.  DOS has been the stumbling block for
many great advances in PC technology, and like cp/m (except for the problems
associated with the huge installed base) it is time to leave the cradle and
venture to the real world, whether it be OS/2, Windows (NT?), or a Unix
variant.  The time has come.
---
Charles A. Fee                           I'd Rather Be FTPing...
cxf111@psuvm.psu.edu

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Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 23:27:06 EDT
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