On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:34:04PM -0800, James E. Henderson wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>DOS has been around for years too. :) > >> > >> > > > >No, it hasn't. Or perhaps I should say it really isn't around anymore. > >It came out in 1981 and pretty much died with Windows 95. So it had a > >run of 14 years which isn't bad. But Unix is at around 36 years and > >counting. I don't know anyone who runs DOS and I haven't seen it on > >store shelves in many years. It's dead for all practical purposes. > >Because it wasn't very good. Unix was around before DOS and it will > >remain around long after. > > > > > Yes, it has / is. I recently bought a large capacity hard drive and the > software provided on the CD-ROM to partition / format the drive was > loaded with DOS as an option for buyers not running Windows. There was a > program version on the CD-ROM for Windows XP with the DOS program for > everybody else. > > James >
But that would almost certainly be OpenDOS, which is to DOS what Linux is to Unix. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
