Re: OT: hard drive limits Q

Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (25 Dec 2006 10:25:38 GMT) it happened jasen
<jasen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <emo8v2$v2s$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On 2006-12-24, Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jan Panteltje wrote:

Just give up on MS DOS, it is of the past.


What if he needs it to run legacy software or hardware? Then Linux
won't do a damn thing for him.

that depends on the hardware most mainstream stuff and popular specialist
stuff is supported.

Bye.
Jasen

Well he should just set aside an old 486 and small HD for true MS DOS.
Hell, people are still using reindeer too, while anyone who can buy so many
presents should have a 747.

But truly MS DOS (or DR DOS) is quite dead, do not use it on a new system.
Today I just did read Vista is full of fatal holes too.
Installed new firefox on Linux yesterday, seems to work OK.
(That is an important security fix).



Yeah, its dead, till you have to use an EISA card that only runs
under DOS 5.0, or an automated test system that only runs under windows
2.0 because it would cost several hundred thousand dollars to replace
the dedicated hardware.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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