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from: Jude DaShiell
date: 2004-01-08 19:47:42
subject: Re: FreeDos

From: Jude DaShiell 

That single selection and continuous enhancement has already happened with
an operating system and language.  It started out as ms-dos and enhanced
its way into windows '98 and started out as qbasic and ended up as
visualbasic.  Then came windows 2000.



On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Robert Mergy Sr. wrote:

> There are operating systems that do have the ability to use an
unlimited amount of memory and can use disk space as memory also. They call
this vertual memory systems. DOS = Disk Operating System and is a markup
language to operate a disk drive, but is now evolving into a language all
it's own. I wonder if this is a good idea? I wonder if it is really a good
idea that we have created so many computer Languages? Why didn't we just
pick one and then enhance it over and over? Sort of allowing it to evolve
into an all purpose language. This would have made computing so much
simpler for everyone, NO?
>
>
> Jude DaShiell  wrote:
> That's a good thing I think. For one thing maybe all of the software can
> be made to write correctly to the screen for screen readers and speech
> synthesizers. Another worthy pursuit might be to make freedos
> advantageous such that it wouldn't matter how much memory or disk space
> was on a machine the operating system could use all of both if that's what
> the installer needed.
>
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