begin quoting Todd Walton as of Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:06:52PM -0700: > On 5/11/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > How many times have they dropped DOS, honestly, really, we mean it? > > Oh. Just realized I said "32" above; I should have said "16". As for > dropping DOS, they dropped it with XP, I thought. And with the > replacement command line environment, they actually added a few useful > features.
Well, NT had DOS as a separate module, but was no longer running "on top of" DOS. Isn't XP descended from NT? > > But I don't think the break will necessarily mean they're going to fix > > the broken things. They're just going to drop the less lucrative bits. > > I disagree. I think roses will spontaneously bloom and cause all the > peoples of the world to join hands and sing. Except maybe you, > Stewart. That's only because people throw things at me when I sing. -Stewart "Originally wrote snig. Which fits too, I guess." Stremler
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