Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Old MS-DOS & WIN Software
>   From: Wouter <cctech at retro.co.za>
>   Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:42:36 +0200
>     To: cctech at classiccmp.org
>
>Hi all
>
>>Mind you if somebody came  up with a better OS when the 386's came out,
>>would we have windows today?
>
>It's called "Linux". And yea, we still have Windoze... :-)
>
>W

At the time of the 386 there was:

CCPM, at least three *nix, OS/2 and DOS.  Winders was what, version 1.0?

The problem is not that we have windows, thats Apples fault. ;)  It's how
we arrived at it.

Funny with I hear of new OS or a port of an older one the first two questions
are can it does it run X and can it network.  Networking is not the big deal
it used to be and you see everything doing it even minimal machines.  Windowing
however is never trivial, like a fungus it grows and  it eats ram, cpu and 
everything in sight.

I was happy for years running DOS with Norton Commander (midnight commander 
for the linux user).  What I didn't get with windows (V3.1, W9x) was a real
multitasking OS.  Why?  Because DOS wasn't a multitasking OS. There lies the 
problem.  


Allison