Dammit Moose - stop being so reasonable!
Please allow me my most treasured and irrational bigotry.
AndrewF
On 21/09/2004, at 7:16 PM, Moose wrote:
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>> It's the foundation and thus the root of all evil. It's not just a
>> DOS,
>> it's THE DOS.
>>
> A clone, really. And their raison d'etre is reliability, so it's not
> MSDOS. Looks like something coded from scratch to emulate DOS functions
> <http://www.datalight.com/product_detail.asp?p_id=20&archive=0>.
>
> I hope that helps. :-)
>
>> It was the mention of autoexec.bat that tweaked my
>> chain. Shudder.
>>
> That stuff I used to understand. I even wrote a couple of utilities in
> assembler for it. The last remnants of one of them may actually retire
> this year, if the It folks can get their bloated new replacement up and
> running.
>
> Moose
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