"Manuel A. Camacho Q." wrote:
>
> 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.
This is symantics. Your trying to compare the two which you can not.
There is a difference. We can talk all day about what dos _Could_ do,
but your comparing and saying they are the same. Thats what I disagree
on, your missing my point.
> 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.
Thats nice. Like I said, you missed my point.
> 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...).
Again, your comparing them. you can't. they are totally different.
People who use linux are not looking for a word prossing station. Like I
said, your way off.
Btw, you can run WordPerfect. But lets remember, you can't run anything
else either. So, when you can run wordperfect and play a game at the
same time, without Desqview or windows, or a like program, let me know.
Maybe your godmother is happy, but she is the few. Most want to have
several programs running at once. Its the reason why dos is gone. I
liked dos when I used it, doesn't mean something better came a long
later.
Jeff
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