What comes across to me is that if you remove the what i was suggesting
entirely from the equation... That a) it all seems like to much effort and its
much easier to whinge about the current compatiblity issues than try and
implement a possible solution or b) You don't want to because your afrai
Hi again,
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Michael B. Brutman
wrote:
>
> On 5/4/2012 9:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>> In other words, original UNIX (tm) didn't have all the GUIs,
>> multi-threading, 64-bit, job control, networking, tons of memory, etc.
>> that we take for granted today. Heck, the PDP w
On 5/4/2012 9:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> In other words, original UNIX (tm) didn't have all the GUIs,
> multi-threading, 64-bit, job control, networking, tons of memory, etc.
> that we take for granted today. Heck, the PDP was 16-bit!
Grr.
The original Unix didn't have all of the things you list.
i still say, if someone can program machine code,
and can make his computer more like a turing machine,
then he ought to go right ahead and do it,
then others will adopt it; depending on how good it is.
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Hi,
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Michael B. Brutman
wrote:
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> Analogies are a slippery slope.
>
> By many definitions, DOS is not even an operating system. It is a
> device driver, file system, and rudimentary memory manager that stays
> resident while a user program is running. When the us
On 5/4/2012 3:55 AM, Martin Kelly wrote:
> On an expansion of before. Just like BSD and Linux are relatives of
> each other and just as capable of each other, why shouldn't DOS be
> able to be just as capable as its relative Windows?
>
> The DOS limitations are the limitations of old technology w
On an expansion of before. Just like BSD and Linux are relatives of each other
and just as capable of each other, why shouldn't DOS be able to be just as
capable as its relative Windows?
The DOS limitations are the limitations of old technology which are no longer
current limitations. This mea
[QUOTE: Robert Riebisch:
Newbies, please use your enthusiasm to write new apps! :-) :QUOTE] Well thats
a bit of a statement and makes a huge assumption on your part!
No offense intended, How does enthusiasm relate to lacking knowledge in a
given area. How can you even summise that there is ev
On 04/05/2012 07:01, Martin Kelly wrote:
> Thanks Jim for your encouragement and support. What your suggesting is an
> interesting idea, like Pat Villani's original idea of implementing FreeBSD
> drivers into DOS. This idea intrigues me alot, i am a big BSD fan especially
> NetBSD and DragonflyB
