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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:10:56AM +1100, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:17:25 +0000 Lee Forrest
> <lforrestster AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > DOS is M$. Baby Windows.
> > >
> > >     In what way is that ?
> >
> > Like Steven just said: Windows was built on top of MSDOS.
>
> Yes, it is. Well, at least up to W98. But it was in use well
> before the Mac gave Billy thoughts above his station. Hell,
> even I was using it then.
>
> > > For a sharp guy, there seem to be a few surprising gaps
> > > in your knowledge of DOS, be it MS-DOS, PC-DOS, FreeDOS or
> > > any of the many other "DOS sets.
> >
> > I have linux. Why would I waste my time learning about an OS
> > that is quite inferior to it?
>
> I would agree with "inferior", but it is still useful for
> a whole variety of purposes. I still use it daily - my
> business runs almost entirely in DOS.

It has some neat apps that should be ported to linux.

> > Plus, I don't like M$ and don't allow any of their OSes on my
> > boxes.
>
> I don't like Micro$oft, either. But I will use whatever tool
> will get the job done - although I will have nothing to do
> with Windows beyond Win3.1, mainly on philosophical and
> ethical grounds. But I also saw the hassles my wife has had
> with Win95/86/2000/NT/XP and I want no part of that, either.

My first OS was XP. I hated it and before I knew there _were_ any
alternative OSs.

> But I am also finding that DOS and Linux co-exist very
> happily, and in what I do they dovetail in together very
> successfully.
>
> But then, I started with personal computers when there was
> ONLY DOS, so I am perfectly comfortable with it.

It was the section on DOS in my first computer book that led me to
linux. I was fascinated by the commandline interface and the lack
of animated paperclips and puppydogs.

I was just about to install (or attempt to install) DOS 6.22 when I
learned about linux.

> Regards, Dinosaur Ron

You've obviously made DOS do effective work. Hard to argue with that.

Lee

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