Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 05:43:21 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: Is DOS dead?
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Prashant TR wrote:

> Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx> proclaimed:
> 
> > On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Prashant TR wrote:
> > 
> > > james archer <snowphoton AT mindspring DOT com> proclaimed:
> > > 
> > > > > That really depends on the type of programs that need to  be run. Linux can't
> > > > > be a solution to everything.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes it can. :o)
> > > 
> > > Oh, yeah. Then try writing a program to find the speed of your L1 and L2
> > > caches (a reliable program).
> > 
> > > And btw, I use Linux, too. But there are a few things like this that
> > > you can't do (or at least they are very hard to do) on Linux due to
> > > the nature of the OS. 
> > 
> > I wonder what these thing are and how much of these "things that you cant
> > do" are relevant for the real world user of linux.
> 
> "These things" are just what I quoted above ;-). Agreed that these things
> aren't for a normail user. But IIRC, the original poster said "I adore DOS".
> He didn't say "I adore NT". So, let's talk DOS and Linux.

Sure, But I'm sure that apart from the fact that DOZE allows direct
lowlevel hardware acesss (and almost any brain damaged software to run)
there is otherwise very little (nothing?) for it to appeal to programmers
more than linux.

Grendel

 
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