Re: So sad my old college dumped their DOS registration system!

Notan wrote:
"John W. Kennedy" wrote:
Notan wrote:
Christopher Browne wrote:
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:07:30 -0500, John W. Kennedy said:

a real operating
system, where DOS is not.
So tell me, by which criteria do you say DOS is not an operating
system?
It doesn't have a memory manager. It doesn't have a process manager.

It is barely more than a program loader with a shell (command.com) on
the front of it.
And, in those days, that's what an OS was!
No, that's what toy operating systems for toy computers were. Real
operating systems had long since progressed far beyond that point.

I was there.

Mainframes, yes.

Small, *personal* computers, no.

That's what I said. Toy computers.

--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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