Hello Ben - At 01:06 AM 11/10/02 -0000, you wrote:
>> My point was that while trashing DOS as useless they failed >> to credit it for what they rely on it to do for them. > >Well, I would have thought if they were saying bootable CDs made DOS >unnecessary, they either don't use DOS because they can boot from CD or are >incredibly stupid. They arent' stupid at all. I'd say they are far above the average. Just 'zealots' I guess? >Obviously some people will use DOS as you say, but not >every Linux installation depends on it either. True but then they use it for other purposes. I never made a list but they do mention using it. If nothing else they tend to prefer W9x installs to burn their CDs. It's a combination of W9x, DOS, and 'other' but few are only using Linux 24/7. >For instance, the only time >I need to use DOS these days is to boot NetWare (even NetWare 6, which is >the current version, requires that it be started from DOS; there are >apparently moves afoot within Novell to remove this dependency though). But if I mysteriously (using magic?) disabled all versions of DOS this evening there would be much knashing of teeth and great sorrow in the land. :-) >> Sorry, I don't understand you here. Isn't this what I >> said (read my above original paragrah again?). > >You said 'everyone cannot boot from CD'; slightly different, since some >people can... Must be a difference in 'The King's English' and American. Believe it or not you keep repeating exactly what I typed (the way I understand the language). >(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Stories, poems, MP3/MIDI music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
