To: rgawenda AT pobox DOT com Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com References: <199709190118 DOT AAA07443 AT lince DOT las DOT es> Message-Id: Organization: International Brownian Movement From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 09:28:25 +0300 Subject: Re: CP/M web site looking for CP/M-86 Lines: 43 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk nuqneH, > From: "Rafa Gawenda" > To: "opendos AT delorie DOT com" > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 00:20:12 -0200 > Subject: Re: CP/M web site looking for CP/M-86 [dd] > >> Clean your hardisk. Download/Install the operating system we're talking about, Caldera openDOS 7.01 > >> Does "it" multitask?! > >> > >> It DOES -at least- for me. > > > >Just one question: have you ever seen any Concurrent DOS clone (Real/32, etc)? > >If no - you are simply missing the point completely: you do not understand > >_what_ did we loose. Taskmgr is just a silly parody on multitasking. > > You're right, is not the greatest multitasking system available. It's perhaps the poorest one. > I didn't try Concurrent DOS or any other multi*.* DOS clone, but I've read much and closely about them, which leads me to this: > They have NEVER been free. OpenDOS _is_ a free multitasking DOS. You can install it on a clean computer, and run two -or more- concurrent programs. Can't you?! They never have been.. but it _could_ happen. Caldera had it - and then sold it. And nobody on the list ever expressed demand in it. I _tried_ to tell people on the list that it is the thing we need and what did they answer? "Multitasking? Yes,we have taskmgr". SHIT!!! _We_ are in fault! > >> >I don't care. I never do. I type "cat *" on any of those. > >> > >> I thing you're bypassing the OS with external "programs", but TYPE is a command of the OS. > > > >I do not use command.com at all. autoexec.bat is one of last remaining > >command.com scripts on my machine - and i will get rid of it soon. > > Again... we're talking about an operative system, and the external replacements or add-on's are not the topic here (I think). I am just trying to show that built-in cli is less important than kernel features that are non-replaceable part of OS. --- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Must be a visit from the dead.. _| o |_ | | _|| | / _||_| |_ |_ |_ CU in Hell .......... Arkan#iD |_ o _||_| _||_| / _| | o |_||_||_|