Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Dmitry V. Irtegov
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 08:40

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In article <41gs5h$9bh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> sgoehrin@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (scott goehring) writes:
>One could probably write one that was fully
>compatible with DOS-compliant programs (that is, those which did not
>try to sidestep DOS for whatever reason) and yet did not act like an
>archaic throwback to the 1950s.

<G>
You definitely have very limited experience with DOS.
Have you ever seen _one_ DOS-compliant program in your sence?
I haven't.

Actually, I have seen such programs: early versions of pkzip and other 
archivers. Even latest pkzip does sidestep DOS for performance reasons.
_All_ business applications and most shareware programs _do_ sidestep DOS.
All timing-sensitive apps do sidestep DOS. Most graphical apps do sidestep DOS.
Every program that shows coloured letters on the screen does sidestep DOS.
Nearly every program that understands arrows, functional keys and keypad
does sidestep DOS.

I do not speak about games...

Examples of DOS emulators that run only DOS-compliant programs are
early versions of Linux dosemu and BSD DOS emulation. They are pretty
much useless.

Cheers,
	Fat Brother.

Fatal Error: Couldn't enter Windows, use Doors.

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 29 Aug 1995 08:40:14 GMT
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