Greetings and felicitations David,
 -> However... DOS is not a reasonable OS, as you know. 
 DW> More precisely, PC-DOS (aka MS-DOS) isn't reasonable. There are other
 DW> Disk Operating Systems, which are equally entitled to the acronym DOS,
 DW> which are more sanely organized.
Actually even more precisely MSDOS, there hasn't been a PC-DOS since
version 2 I think and the only time IBM wrote an OS for the PC was
MSDOS 4 (which they licensed back to MS) after which they publicly
announced they weren't going to do any more.
Info from dosref34.zip.
Hope this clears things up a little.
Byeee, Nigel.
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