From: "Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: An updated DOS - Please discuss
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 07:15:36 +0300
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Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu> wrote in message
news:37DD58FE DOT 54640A0E AT hmc DOT edu...
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> Not quite true.  I've never seen a real application for DOS that was
> configured solely in autoexec/config.  And even if it were, can you
> imagine the creeping, unmaintainable horror that autoexec.bat would
> become if it included all your settings for Wordperfect, Quake, Netware,
> Turbo Pascal, etc, etc?
>
> Oh wait, I don't have to imagine it, I've seen it.  It was called the
> "Windows Registry" :)

Hahaha!! Great!

ROFL

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