[Gllug] MS grumbles (was: take a lookat my photos on Facebook)

[Peter Corlett]

On 6 Nov 2009, at 13:10, John G Walker wrote:
[...]
> This, of course, was also the case for drivers, which was a pain. You
> had to match your hardware to your application.
>
> DOS was seriously minimal,

So was every other microcomputer OS way back in the early 1980s. 25  
years on and even with modern understanding of what makes a good  
operating system, we'd probably still not be able to write something  
much better than DOS for the hardware of the day. It'd probably just  
superficially look a bit like Unix rather than like CP/M, as that's  
the modern fashion.

DOS's failings are only notable because it hung around for so long  
before being replaced.


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