8 Mar
1999
8 Mar
'99
1:09 p.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Once upon a midnight dreary, Derek Peschel had spoken
clearly:
>> >POS (PERQ Operating System or Pascal OS)
was the first PERQ OS. It's
>> POS has got to be the single most overused OS
name! DEC used it for the
>Oh, come on. There's got to be TONS more OSs
with "DOS" in their names.
Plus, for the Z-80 side of RS, you had TRSDOS, LS-DOS,
NewDOS, and prolly
more I've never heard of, but *none* of these examples are what Zane was
originally referring to, for DOS is only a subset of the entire, correct
name. In fact, MS-DOS and PC-DOS wouldn't even count for his argument.
Yes, you're right. Zane has a perfectly good point. I was just struck by
the irony that he may be talking about 4-5 OSs while I can come up with
dozens. Actually, I do kow of a few "just plain DOS" systems: DOS for the
IBM System/360, DOS for the Apple ][, DOS for the Atari 8-bit machines, DOS
for the PDP-11. You might be able to come up with more DOS's than POS's if
you tried hard enough.
-- Derek