From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is DOS dead?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 10:04:27 -0400
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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote:
>
> > Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Installation base & ease of install (just run install.exe).
> Well under linux we have RPM or even install.exe .... :-)

    I'm very experienced in the world of DOS & Windows, and I can generally plod
my way though Linux.  I've never had a problem installing DOS on any machine,
and only limited problems installing Windows (if a previous version of it was
still installed it complains about 'win.com', the Desktop directory, and the
Start menu directory existing).
    How many times has anyone installed DOS (or windows) on a machine, rebooted,
and had "01 " repeated indefinitely on the screen (LILO was very unhappy).  How
hard would it be to make a executable with an embedded RPM image so that when it
was executed, it installed itself?  I doubt it would be very hard, and I think
that's the way rpm's should be done (it looks much more attractive to Windows
users)
    Most people will not have to worry about partitions with M$ OS's (because
most machines come with the hard-drive already in MS format), that's not really
a problem with the installer, it's a problem with society.


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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)