sorry for going on about DOS, but a sorta funny fact just occured to me.. I reckon MSCDEX was the only sorta-API it had. (shit.. I just realised that includes a mention of MS.. fuck. catch-22 trying to slag 'em off.. I better shut up now)
Dos is not a standard by ANY means (standart muse mean standard, right ?)
(a) MS developed DOS ? IBM did and (regrettably) passed development over the MS in 88 or something.
PC-DOS(IBM) DR-DOS(Digital Research), 4DOS (shareware command.com replacement, still nearly another dos) blah blah, even that thing on the old apricot my mum used to have was another dos.
Dos is the minimalist operating system you could ever have. It has the most featureless, limit-riddled filesystem ever (8+3 filenames, max-128 root entrys, case insensitive, not case-preserving, 540mb limit without bios workarounds, 2gb limit PERIOD.) umm.. 640K memory limit (hmmm dont abuse me on that with talk of it being pc architecture or whatever, DOS is still not even an allowable word in current OS talks), no real hardware support/api's. everything is done by the applications directly (remember having to select your display type, and dma/irq/base for sound card ?) umm... whatever.
I just dont think he raised any decent points in what he tried to go on about. so *THERE* hehe this is my first time on here.. maybe I should've done that Anonymous Coward thingy-magig.
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sorry for going on about DOS, but a sorta funny fact just occured to me.. I reckon MSCDEX was the only sorta-API it had. (shit.. I just realised that includes a mention of MS.. fuck. catch-22 trying to slag 'em off.. I better shut up now)
Dos is not a standard by ANY means (standart muse mean standard, right ?)
(a) MS developed DOS ? IBM did and (regrettably) passed development over the MS in 88 or something.
PC-DOS(IBM) DR-DOS(Digital Research), 4DOS (shareware command.com replacement, still nearly another dos) blah blah, even that thing on the old apricot my mum used to have was another dos.
Dos is the minimalist operating system you could ever have. It has the most featureless, limit-riddled filesystem ever (8+3 filenames, max-128 root entrys, case insensitive, not case-preserving, 540mb limit without bios workarounds, 2gb limit PERIOD.) umm.. 640K memory limit (hmmm dont abuse me on that with talk of it being pc architecture or whatever, DOS is still not even an allowable word in current OS talks), no real hardware support/api's. everything is done by the applications directly (remember having to select your display type, and dma/irq/base for sound card ?) umm... whatever.
I just dont think he raised any decent points in what he tried to go on about. so *THERE*
hehe this is my first time on here.. maybe I should've done that Anonymous Coward thingy-magig.
haha rofl :)
Couldn't have said it better. wtf was he going on about ?
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