From: "John Allain" <allain_at_panix.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: DOS bugs. (was: FA: Altera PLD programmer, Motorola HYPERmodules ...)
> > I'm ambivalent about MS-DOS.
> > There were some parts of it that I really liked.
>
> It helped that the bug count was so low.
> I don't know that there were any bugs at all with the DOS'es.
>
> Q: Were there any bugs in DOS?
>
> John A.
Well, I dont know if you could call it a bug, but I once had an experience which I could have lived without (which I obviously do today). I needed to sort a textfile where each record was 256 bytes. I had to give up, as SORT only could sort records up to 250 bytes....
Nico
Received on Sat Aug 16 2003 - 07:24:00 BST