[BC] any DOS fanatics out there?

[DANA PUOPOLO]

The best DOS out there is a Russian on that's mission critical certified by
their military. Missle silos in Russia run in it. That's good enough for me!

FreeDOS is pretty good too, as was DR-DOS before Novell bought it and trashed
it at the behest of Microsoft (who ripped off lots of its features - DR-DOS
had things in its V4 and 5 that Microsoft only brought out in V6, long AFTER
DR-DOS had released them.

-D


------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:22:32 PM PST
From: Chris Gebhardt <chris at virtbiz.com>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] any DOS fanatics out there?

SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>  DANA PUOPOLO wrote:
> 
>> DOS 4.0 was probably the worst DOS made.
>> DOS 5 was the best.
> 
> 
> 
> I'd read long ago that 4.0 was pretty bad, 5 not much better.  I think I 
> had a machine once with 4.0 in it...don't recall any problems with it.  
> What was the problem with those versions of DOS?

Our voicemail system runs on 6.2.  Sometimes I tinker with the idea of 
putting it into a Windows 2000 or better system so that I can get some 
remote access to it.  Then I remember I have other projects that 
probably take precedence to the tinkering.  ;)

Especially since it's just so solid when left alone.

We've replaced the hardware it runs on 3 or 4 times, always with 
cast-off gear that's too slow to run anything else.  But considering it 
started life on a 486-DX/50 with a whopping 8MB RAM, I don't think it 
can complain.

Chris Gebhardt
VIRTBIZ Internet Services
chris at virtbiz.com | (866) 4-VIRTBIZ

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