To:	rgawenda AT pobox DOT com
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Organization:	International Brownian Movement
From:	"-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 97 09:28:25 +0300
Subject:	Re: CP/M web site looking for CP/M-86
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nuqneH,

> From: "Rafa Gawenda" <rgawenda AT pobox DOT com>
> To: "opendos AT delorie DOT com" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 00:20:12 -0200
> Subject: Re: CP/M web site looking for CP/M-86

[dd]

> >> Clean your hardisk. Download/Install the operating system we're talking about, Caldera openDOS 7.01
> >> Does "it" multitask?!
> >>
> >> It DOES -at least- for me.
> >
> >Just one question: have you ever seen any Concurrent DOS clone (Real/32, etc)?
> >If no - you are simply missing the point completely: you do not understand
> >_what_ did we loose. Taskmgr is just a silly parody on multitasking.
>
> You're right, is not the greatest multitasking system available. It's perhaps the poorest one.
> I didn't try Concurrent DOS or any other multi*.* DOS clone, but I've read much and closely about them, which leads me to this:
> They have NEVER been free. OpenDOS _is_ a free multitasking DOS. You can install it on a clean computer, and run two -or more- concurrent programs. Can't you?!

They never have been.. but it _could_ happen. Caldera had it - and then sold
it. And nobody on the list ever expressed demand in it. I _tried_ to tell
people on the list that it is the thing we need and what did they answer?
"Multitasking? Yes,we have taskmgr". SHIT!!! _We_ are in fault!

> >> >I don't care. I never do. I type "cat *" on any of those.
> >>
> >> I thing you're bypassing the OS with external "programs", but TYPE is a command of the OS.
> >
> >I do not use command.com at all. autoexec.bat is one of last remaining
> >command.com scripts on my machine - and i will get rid of it soon.
>
> Again... we're talking about an operative system, and the external replacements or add-on's are not the topic here (I think).

I am just trying to show that built-in cli is less important than kernel
features that are non-replaceable part of OS.

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