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Article #796Re: DOS is dead.
From: Todd Walk
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:44
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:44
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noesis@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60276000) writes:
>>I think Russ's point is that people will stop buying DOS in favor of a
>>real operating system, be it OS/2, UNIX, or NT. I would not be so
>>optimistic about DOS's demise tho. Maybe 2-3 years and most development
>>for DOS-based platforms will stop.
>>
>Let's see, what do most people do in an OS? launch programs. from this
>standpoint, TRSDOS was 5K and everything most people needed. Now DOS is
>everything most people need. Why <<<NOT>>> go to windows / os2 / unix?
>money mostly. DOS is about $35.00 and requires about 1808K harddisk and
>256K RAM. Windows-NT, according to the press release will require 100M
>harddisk and 6-10M RAM. the Unix flavors i've seen require 40M harddisk
>and 4M+ RAM to be useful.
^^^ ^^^
Try 200M+ hard disk and 8M+ memory.
Todd Walk
walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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