1 Jul
2016
1 Jul
'16
9:13 p.m.
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Clem Cole wrote:
Networking not so much. You definitely could (and
people did/do) add
networking to executives. In those days, DEC has DECnet for their systems
(including MS-DOS) and today in the IoT world, I use many of my Arduino's
with network connections. But I the programing is very much like it was in
my DOS-8/DOS-11/RT-11 days.
I've seen TSR network stacks for MS-DOS; I don't *use* such, but they
exist.
We ran V7 on 8" floppies (SA800's from
Shugart Associates IIRC). These
were ~ 256K each. You did have to swap disks in/out a little as Marc
described. You booted from one Floppy and replaced it with a "root" FS
floppy after the OS loaded. But it all could and did fit. You had ad
editor, the compilers, etc.
I think that's how Minix worked on 5.25" floppies too, if I remember how I
got it up on my old Tandy 1000EX.
So it all come back to my basic point. The PC and
MS-DOS >>could<< have
been made to be in the image of UNIX easily; if people had cared or it was
needed/desired. But economics caused it to stay in "all its crapiness"
not technology.
I think OS/2 was certainly closer to Unix than MS-DOS was.
-uso.