Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/23/13:08:12
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| Date: | 23 Jan 2001 10:05:28 -0800
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| From: | BLASZAK Nicholas D <Nicholas DOT D DOT Blaszak AT state DOT or DOT us>
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| To: | opendos AT delorie DOT com
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| Subject: | DOS and WIN/98
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| Reply-To: | opendos AT delorie DOT com
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My name is Nick and I am a diehard DOS user. I absolutely depend on my DOS window under Win/98 for my productive work - even at my job which is System Programmer for the Oregon State Legislature. I support IBM mainframe software - not PC - but use a PC with 3270 host emulation (terminal emulation) to access my host S/390.
The problem; For several months, since I've been upgraded to a Pentium III 600 mh Tangent, I have experienced severe shutdown and boot up problems. I am the only one in my department of about 30 persons, who have this difficulty. Many of my peers have the same PC. I am the ONLY DOS user, and our PC administrator is blaming my problems on my use of DOS! He claims that DOS is illegitimate now, and not really a safe thing to use etc. etc.
He's got the boss thinking his way and so I'm being pressured to stop using DOS. Well this is like asking me to stop drinking water or something - unimaginable. I need DOS to do my work.
Has anyone heard of system problems having to do with a user running DOS under Win/98? I'm talking about the regular DOS that is built into Win/98's command prompt only. The specific problems are that my PC, over time, degrades more and more in terms of shutdown and bootup. Once it's up it's OK. But when I boot up it comes up with blank screen - basically halted - before loading Windows. Then upon reboot, it may come up in Safe mode etc. It will take a few trys to finally get a clean boot. Shutdown also becomes failure prone. The PC was rebuilt (formatted HD) and the same problems revist.
To try to resolve the probem, we have swapped my PC with another in the office and rebuilt them both from an HD format on up. I have been asked to not use DOS for a period of time to see if the problem revisits me. I have not complied however, as I don't by the 'poison DOS' theory, and prefer to believe it is in the hardware. But if my new PC takes on the
same symptoms I'm going to have a weak case.
Thank you,
Nicholas Blaszak
Software Analyst
Oregon State Legislature
Nicholas DOT D DOT Blaszak AT state DOT or DOT us
(503) 986-1221
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