[arachne] Re: what can't DOS do ??? (was Re: Mouse? (was Browser Won't Start In Default Home Page)

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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.

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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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