On Fri, 11 May 2001, M. Yu wrote:
> RedHat is a distribution of an OS called Linux just like MSDOS, DRDOS or
> QDOS (or was it QuickDOS?) were distributions of DOS.
The analogy is not quite accurate.
RedHat, Debian, Slackware, etc are Linux distributions: they all use the
Linux kernel.
On the other hand, DOS refers to MSDOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System),
but DRDOS and QDOS are not DOS distributions. DRDOS and QDOS do not
come with the DOS kernel (io.sys, msdos.sys), but are both independently
written DOS-workalikes.
One of the machines I use boot to OpenDOS, which runs loadlin,
which loads Linux. The Linux partition can be anywhere, even beyond
the 1024 track limit imposed by most bootloading programs.
So (Open)DOS can be quite useful, even in this modern age when most
users consider it dead!
PManalastas
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