On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:43, Pigeon wrote: > 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.
I was totally unaware of things *nix in those days. All I knew was that Simtel had heaps of handy little DOS utilities many of which had references in their Help files to strange and arcane things like 'Emacs' and 'GPL'... > 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... ed - is that the DOS full screen editor? Vastly superior to edlin, of course. And it was simple, consistent and it worked. What more could one want? ;) cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
