Dr=DOS

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
Date: Mon Jul 27 15:15:16 1998

Bruce Lane wrote:

> At 01:03 27-07-98 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Anyone tried the lastest DR-DOS by Caldera? Just curious how good it
> >actually is especially on older machines. Saw a write up proposing that
>
> Yes indeed. I installed it on one of the testbed machines here. Works
> great, very fast, no incompatibilities that I can detect!

I donwloaded the trial versions for disk on all three (1.44, 1.2 and 720) today and
I'm going to give them a try on different machines. I've heard nothing but mediocre
to great things about DR-DOS and I haven't used it personally since it was under
Digital's ownership back around 1986 and had some question of it then.

> And for those who cry 'DOS is obsolete!,' let them know that DOS is very
> much alive and well on VMEBus systems. ;-)

Windows and Windows 95 still run DOS or over DOS so what's the problem? I have all
sorts of DOS platform programs I use all the time including Proboard 2.16 BBS (that
I need to reinstall) and I r un them either in straight DOS, as a DOS program with a
PIF in Windows 3.x or as a DOS box in Win95/98. They're only obsolete if no one has
a real use for them, right?

Thanks for the comments, all of you that have so far written me in open and private
replies. Very much appreciated.

>
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)
> (Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin_at_jps.net)
> "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
> human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."



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