From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs Date: 2 Dec 1992 00:07:42 GMT
In article <1992Nov30.030054.34268@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
> In article <id.4MEV.KTL@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Perhaps, but he did the best job he could and still fit into that opening.
> >And he kept working on real improvements. Microsoft *still* hasn't done
> >anything to substantially improve MS-DOS since DOS 2.1.
> Well, IMHO, Windows is still a big improvement over MS-Dos.
Windows is a completely different operating system, that happens to use
MS-DOS to boot and do file I/O. I'm talking about DOS 5.
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