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In article <92106.232706CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu> CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Fee) writes:
>>Sure gets my vote for Dork poster of the week!
>
>Huh?  The GOD of Packet drivers is a dork?

Russ's opener in this discussion was obviously deliberately
aggressive, even a bit outrageous, probably to get a strong
response.  But is a two-egded sword for an established net
personality to use.  Maybe it is not the best choice for his
continued credibility.  (*NO* flame involved, but a simple
observation grown out of experience). 

>     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

Why do people have to look at this so subjectively.  This is not a
simple matter of opinnion.  Rather consider the current user
statistics.  No, I don't have them, but PC and other magazines often
give some estimates.  It seems that MsDos usage is still in a class
of its own in that respect.  But the success of Windows is
noteworthy, yet we are still speaking of perhaps a few million users
instead of tens of milloins.  Whether one likes it or not, the
market decides, not the company programmers' preferences. 

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