9 Jan
1999
9 Jan
'99
4:56 a.m.
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu wrote:
became. If they had just ripped off a better OS, that
might have been nice
as well. Something with long file names, or multitasking, or whatever.
And OSs of the time DID have long file names. I don't know about
multitasking (maybe OS/9 or FLEX were around when DOS was born?).
Interestingly, there were a number of attempts over the years to make a
better OS than DOS. An example is TSX-Lite, a multitasking, 32-bit version
of DOS that was shareware last time I looked. It had the right ideas but
worked very poorly. Caldera DR-DOS supposedly has multitasking but it
hardly works. OS/2 is very resource-intensive, worse than Windows 95.
Which makes me wonder; maybe something good could have been done before
Linux came about, but everyone was too lazy?
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