9 Aug
2004
9 Aug
'04
8:04 a.m.
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Fred Cisin wrote:
I developed somewhat mission critical systems on DOS that realized
millions of dollars in revenue. I know other people who've done the same.
DOS is very functional.
And as Fred says, it gets out of the way when you want it to.
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Of course, I
wouldn't use such a system for any real work :-) I am amazed
that people actually did so.
depends on what kind of "real work" you WANT to do.
It works [sort of] as an application launcher.
But most of all, IT WILL GET OUT OF THE WAY when you
want to do "real work".