Jeff Smelser wrote:
> Although the above is true, your also way off. dos is nothing more than
> a command prompt. Linux is a complete operating system. You do NOT need
> gnome/kde to run multi-tasking programs or anything. Dos runs one
> program and thats it. Windows provides the rest. Linux is light years
> ahead of what dos could even think about doing.
>
> The above is a simple command. Its really a bad example.
>
> Jeff
Hi, Jeff!
Sorry, but I just disagree with you in some aspects.
First, DOS is an operating system by itself. Yes, not
multiuser/multitasking as Linux, but an operating system anyway (and a
pretty good one for what it was originally intended). Some of us will
never ever use most of the multiuser characteristics of an operating
system, because we just don't need them.
Second, about the simple examples, well, sorry, I think as an Engineer,
and I was tought that "the main objective of physics is to explain the
universe in the simplest way possible" (Albert Einstein), and I try to
apply that to any single subject I have to deal with, including
computers.
Third, regarding "Linux is light years ahead of what dos could even
think about doing", well, and Andromeda is light years from Earth and
certainly most of us really don't care about that just because we don't
have any reason to care. in summary, it all depends of what you intend
doing. If what I require is word processing, then, I can use DOS 3.2
with WordPerfect 5.0 on an XT with 20 MB of hard disk and less than 1MB
of RAM (my godmother still does private accounting in such a system and
is pretty happy with it...).
-Manuel.
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