Hi Gangs!
It's interesting to read others opinions of what constitutes a
"standard"...as for any flavor of "Nix" being standard, I dunno about
that! I've used IBM AIX for a number of years, and while some portions
are some sort of "standard" and usable by other UNIX oses, many will
only run on AIX, and some even on certain versions of AIX. The problem
with UNIX has always been simply the complicity of the operating system.
Linux, in my opinion, started out life as a step into a direction of
making a UNIX type, not clone, which was more "understandable" by a
larger community of users. It hasn't gotten there yet, but, it may get
there some day.
Standards are something which tend to change whenever those in power
decide what should be a standard. At present, that someone happens to
be MS, and Windows application formats tend to be called "standards".
Not too long ago, almost all word processors had some mention of a "Word
Star" keystroke standard. Now we see MS Word being termed standard.
What it basically boils down to is that what is standard today, will in
most likely scenarios, NOT be standard in the future.
DOS fits the definition of "standard" in that it runs basically the SAME
fashion on a wide variety of PC platforms, irregardless of CPU, memory,
hard drive capacity, etc. If my feeble DOS applications, such as
Directory Wizard or WizCODE perform in a given way on a 286 or 386, you
can bet that they will perform in the same fashion on a 486 or Pentium!
That's what I like to call "standard". Besides, DOS boots a lot faster
than almost any other operating system, other than some of the old ones
like CP/M or (shudder) Apple II E...hehe!
C U L8R!
Wiz <{;-)
Wizard57M
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