[arachne] Re: [OT] Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration

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Did IBM kill DOS, or Caldera, or anyone else who produced
DOS systems? They simply quit using it. They're biggest
customers, business and government and military demanded
it. Citibank, NASA, and such wanted something more useful,
stable, robust, and secure. I will give M$ this, they were
pressured into it. This was the reason for projects like,
the Monteray project, OS/2 and NT. M$ kept it going though
in the consumer windo$e systems. If people really want DOS
to continue, they can do it thru OpenSource systems. Users
lost interest too. Freedos is out there. A popular Linux
publication I read provides a DVD with each issue with four
to eight gigs of software apiece, with several OSs an issue.
Freedos is frequently included. DOS programs are supposed
to talk to hardware directly. I realize for some, like
CDRWs you need a generic driver, but couldn't somebody write
some OpenSource drivers. Where are all the DOS programmers?
Why have so many DOS users switched to Linux, BSD, and windo$e?
I'm no lover of M$, but you can't blame just them and the hardware manufacturers. Just a few short years ago Linux had almost nil 
support from anyone. Why has that changed so dramatically?
I don't think you'll be seeing M$ writing many more DOS drivers.
At least I wouldn't hold my breath on it. You'll have to rely
on someone else. OpenSource maybe? Get manufacturers to open
up the specs on their hardware, that would help.
Rob

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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Brian C. Murphy wrote:


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Re Microsoft sucking up to the open source community:
Maybe, but when is microsoft going to write the DOS device drivers for add
on peripherals, such as CDRW'S so that Dos users can effectively use the
many peripherals that have entered the computer world since Microsoft did
its damndest to kill DOS.
Brian Murphy
BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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