[arachne] Re: what can't DOS do ???

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Jason,

> Well, that list is good enough to knock dos off of the 'Objective'
> list of best OSs as it is. You left off anything that DOS can do that
> others can't. The rest on your list is proprietary but even

> 6) streaming audio/streaming video

> is enough to make it not the best OS, objectively speaking.

if you leave the field of OS capabilities and enter the one of
availability of certain applications for one OS or the other, you will
find that no single OS sticks out as the best one because you can always
find an application that only exists for one platform, and DOS has
countless apps that have not been ported to any other OS, and probably
never will.

Sure, you can run DOS software in an emulator, but then you can also do
this with software for other OSes in DOS.

Regards,

Udo

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