Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/09/16/22:02:21
Kevin A. Pieckiel (kapieckiel AT Harding DOT edu) wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Michael F Brenner wrote:
> > (3) DOS does not have perfect multi-programming-ness, and needs help
> There's where you're messed up. There is no such thing as a perfect
> operating system or perfect this or perfect that. All this garbage about
> a 32-bit DOS and pros and cons about it and other OS's..... people
> (including myself) are spinning their wheels for nothing. A 32-bit DOS
> will not solve the world's problems in computing.
I don't want to solve the world's problems in computing, I just want
to be able to use my familiar and resource-frugal DOS programs without
having them tie up the machine (e.g. long downloads and printouts,
lengthy compiles, etc.), and without having to buy a 2 gig hard drive
and a new motherboard, and ...
> If you want 32-bit
> console apps, there are other 32-bit OS's out there to do it (*nix), and
> if you want a 32-bit graphics application, there are pure 32-bit, fast
> OS's that can handle that (my preference is WinNT--OS/2 just doesn't have
> the support nor appeal to me, and Win95 is not pure 32-bit).
None of these options can run very well on my current hardware. :-(
> Even if you had a 32-bit DOS, you're just gonna find problems with that,
> too. There's not a piece of software on this planet that is good enough
> for anyone.
It just has to be good enough for me, and I'll use it.
> There's always something wrong with it. I hope neither DJ
> nor anyone else DOES write a 32-bit DOS, as I'm certain it will not be
> accepted in the market.
Market schmarket. See previous paragraph.
> There will be no support. MS is pushing to put
> Windows NT on home desktop computers. This means that before long, people
> can be self-suffient on pure NT/95 native, 32-bit code and DOS will be by
> the wayside. It is my belief that 95 will also hit the ground and be
> forgotten. Backwards compatibility with DOS will eventually be
> nonexistent. In the longer future, hardware may do the same.... Who
> knows, Intel may be able to one day push into the homes of people a
> processor without the problems posed by the current Intel architecture.
P7? We can only hope...
> Or better yet, Intel will fall to its knees and be absorbed by Digital and
> we will all have cheap alphas on our desks. I don't know. But it won't
> be long before the software market has forgotten DOS. The average user
> will one day not even have heard of DOS without reading a book on computer
> history.
People in the computer industry used to say, "By the year 2000 nobody
will be running these programs anyway. So what do we need with more
than 2-digit year variables?!"
> <soapbox mode off>
Likewise (for now :-)
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