On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +1300, cr wrote: > DOS - most of its (very necessary) improvements were written as little apps > by third-party developers (often copied from UNIX) and then copied by M$....
Ah, nostalgia... I have quite a rosy memory of DOS 3.x being pretty easy to work with. I tend to forget that one of the first things I did under it was clone most of the useful command-line tools I missed from Unix, using Borland Turbo C, version 1.0... and my tools, unlike Microsoft's, took care to do disk I/O in multiples of the cluster size, which sped things up tremendously in those days. It's interesting that MS Word on the Macintosh (MacOS 6) beat the crap out of the contemporary MS Word for Windows... not only did it have more features, but they all worked, properly, reliably and consistently. The Windows version, by comparison, looked like an approximate clone knocked up by some backstreet cowboy outfit. Seems they can write good apps, but only under Apple's iron fist... > I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin..... I still use ed... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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