Mail Archives: opendos/2004/01/08/21:39:20
Actually, that did happen. AT&T Bell Labs, rebelling aginst the
proliferation of proprietary operating systems, developed Unix in the
late 60s. Dos drew heavily on Unix for technology, amounting to a
"simplistic single-user" version of Unix. There are many flavors of Unix
around [Linux being one], and most are "source code compatible". If you
install Linux in a form that basically provides the same capabilities as
DOS, it takes little mare space than MS-DOS, and runs a lot better.
I use FreeDos to manage the boot process for my distribution of Linux to
avoid micro$oft spin on some machine bios chips. I find FreeDos to be a
"work in process" as far as an OS is concerned, with wierd errors and
very unfriendly error recovery. For my purpose, it performs well, but I
wouldn't distribute it to users as an OS.
Robert Mergy Sr. wrote:
> There are operating systems that do have the ability to use an unlimited
> amount of memory and can use disk space as memory also. They call this
> vertual memory systems. DOS = Disk Operating System and is a markup
> language to operate a disk drive, but is now evolving into a language
> all it's own. I wonder if this is a good idea? I wonder if it is really
> a good idea that we have created so many computer Languages? Why didn't
> we just pick one and then enhance it over and over? Sort of allowing it
> to evolve into an all purpose language. This would have made computing
> so much simpler for everyone, NO?
>
>
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT shellworld DOT net> wrote:
>
> That's a good thing I think. For one thing maybe all of the software can
> be made to write correctly to the screen for screen readers and speech
> synthesizers. Another worthy pursuit might be to make freedos
> advantageous such that it wouldn't matter how much memory or disk space
> was on a machine the operating system could use all of both if
> that's what
> the installer needed.
>
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