To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:32:25 -0700
Subject: Re: Hi !
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From: Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

For GMCAPSLOCK:

You said:

> I'm a new user of this m-list. What do u intend when speak about 
> "dos"?

Basically this list is for Open DOS, which came from DR-DOS,
which came from Novell DOS, which came from DR DOS, 
which came from CP/M which came from UNIX by way of 
Gary Kildall.  This first operating system did not support  
disk or tape drives and was transported across many of 
the 8-bit systems and then to the Intel family.  Gary Kildall 
formed Digital Research and was involved in many other 
computer projects which included Mainframe and 
Minicomputers, software, and hardware, and the first 
(D)isk (O)perating (S)ystem, before there was any 
MS or PC DOS.  It is still considered to be the best DOS 
by many users.

There is a lot of discussion about the different things that happen 
to people using DOS applications with different DOS's how to fix 
problems which occur to different computer configurations in 
the DOS world.  We also have a lot of people here who use 
MS Windows with DOS, with varying experiences, and success 
varies from person to person and system to system. 

You can download Open DOS/DR-DOS from ftp://www.lineo.com 
and you can even get the source files from several linked sites 
where list members have made them available.  If you wanted to 
use your programmers skills there are probably some things 
you would find of interest to you. You can go to http://www.Delorie.com 
and check out the archives for some of the things discussed on this list.


Hope you find something here of interest.  

Bob "DOMAN" Moss 
'Chocolate is a necessary food additive. 
It clears the brain for less important things'   
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