Re: You people.

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <4gfgt3$ol2@maverick.tad.eds.com>,
Erick Wagner  <wagnere@netcom.com> wrote:
>rkerman@brutus.bright.net (Rick Kerman) wrote:
>
>>In Article<4gcuhu$o0p@maverick.tad.eds.com>,
>><wagnere@netcom.com> writes:
>
>>> FWIW, MS-DOS (although it has been continually enhanced) is based on
>>> late_70s/early_80s work.  ProDOS 8 (for 8-bit machines) was introduced
>>> around 1984. GS/OS (for 16-bit machines) is a product of the late 80s.
>
>>FYI - ProDOS was derived from the ill-fated SOS (silly operating
>>system, we called it) from the Apple 3, which was derived from
>>an earlier work called Pascal.
>
>Yep, don't disagree with you there.  ProDOS is a scaled down version of
>the Sophisticated Operating System (SOS) to work in systems as small as
>64K.  I also believe that elements of the UNIX file system were an
>influence on the design of SOS.  So, ProDOS is a bit older than 1984 but
>it is younger than CP/M which was a big influence on MS-DOS.

MS-DOS was not just influenced by CP/M!  It is almost a direct theft of CP/M.
It certainly has never been improved!  Sure, they made updates, but the 
majority of the crap is still just crap.  And most businesses were made 
fools of by IBM and MS for putting up with such inferior hardware and OS.

The only reason it is currently viable is for the same reason why VHS is 
still there and Beta is gone.  When you fool the unknowning public (yes, 
most businesses that bought IBM were computer illiterate) with cheap 
prices and a false impression that Big Blue was a decent company compared 
to a young upstart (Apple), you can force inferior junk on them.

John

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