[arachne] Re: what can't DOS do ??? (was Re: Mouse? )

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Well Jason,
                        You just proved it to me.....
You want much more from your computer
than I do. None of that stuff you mentioned
is important to me. The only things that I would
like and miss is the ability to do Javascript and
secure/encrypted transactions.  The rest I don't
need....but....your welcome to it.  Enjoy your multi
tasking and enjoy your OS which is so complex
that it trips over itself and cannot be fixed.  When
it starts balking and acting up and rebooting 
doesn't cure it....well....just reformat the drive
and re-install it.  I spend more time keeping
my non-DOS machine working, chasing viruses,
eradicating spam-bots, etc. than I actually
spend using it for productive things. And it
seems when I need it most is the time it usually
picks to balk. It's only a necessary evil.

Eric

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:24:50 -0600 Jason Dodd <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> 
> > Mr. Dodd,
> >
> > Here's my list of what DOS can't do.
> >
> > 1) JAVA applets
> > 2) Java script
> > 3) Windows Media Video (.WMV files)
> > 4) Shockwave Flash (.SWF files)
> > 5) RealAudio/RealVideo
> > 6) streaming audio/streaming video
> >
> > Although there are some very rudementary java script interpretors
> > for DOS, so little of it can be done in DOS that we can esentially
> > that.... "virtually no Java script can be done in DOS".
> >
> > And although there are some older RA2Wav players for DOS.
> > They do not work with the newer versions of RealNetworks files 
> which
> > are being made available today.
> >
> > But that's it... 6 things that I've found during my 28yrs of using
> > computers (starting with the Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 [which I 
> still
> > have and which is still in perfect working order]), all the way up 
> to
> > this P4-1.5ghz machine I'm using right now and the P4-3ghz machine
> > just purchased a few weeks ago... which can't be done in DOS.
> >
> > ___________________
> >
> > Please, show me your list.
> >
> >   
> 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.
> 
> It is past my bed time but for starters you can build a list of any 
> 10 
> apps DOS can run and let me know how to run them all at once.  I've 
> tried various ways of multitasking in the past but never found a 
> method 
> that seemed to work well.  Perhaps that's just me not knowing 
> enough.  
> Handling multiple users is another.
> 
> So how do you run a wysiwyg editor, preferably html, cd playing in 
> the 
> background, instant messenger on so my son can im me, compile the 
> program of the day, etc all at the same time I'm checking out the 
> latest 
> hacks on hackaday?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 

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