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Hello David - 

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CA>>>> .. DOS the Ghost in the Machine! 

DD>>> The point is Charles that DOS is no longer "the Ghost in
DD>>> the Machine". Many modern machines have never seen it.
DD>>> Very little will fit on a diskette any more so their use
DD>>> is becoming far less prevelant. Many new machines don't
DD>>> come with a floppy drive. 

You always refer to "new machines". Do you not realize that new
machines do _not_ outnumber machines in the installed base of
computers out there in use today? 

CA>> Bootable CDs, rescue disks, Partition Magic, and others
CA>> continue to use DOS 

DD> We don't have rescue disks - if the machine dies, we
DD> reinstall. 

I believe you do but that's not what the rest of the world does. 

DD> We also don't use/have Partition Magic (although I have
DD> fiddled with GNU PartEd - which booted from a Linux/Minix
DD> floppy) 

I thought you said you and the wife _had_ no floppies? ;-)

DD> As for the Bootable CD business, I can guarantee that not
DD> all of the bootable CDs we use have any DOS on them. I'll
DD> have to check that any have it at all (which ones do you
DD> think boot DOS?) 

Which do you think do _not_? 

DD>>> Files are moved via networks, or those little USB memory
DD>>> drive thingies. 

No person I know in the real world has a working intranet in
their homes and no one I know in the real world owns one of
those "little USB memory drive thingies". 

CA>> In your world where David is 'emperor' maybe. In the rest
CA>> of the world they use whatever works and DOS just works
CA>> for them. 

DD> I'm not any sort of emperor Charles, just a computer user
DD> in the 21st century. 

You are an avid fan of "new", everyone is not that way. 

DD> A quick ask around finds that most of my friends no longer
DD> use floppy disks/DOS utilities either. 

I realize people say that and think that but I also realize
they use DOS at times they are not aware of using it. 

DD> (I'm suprised that you think Partition Magic is something
DD> that many people would use, 

Post that comment in the Win95 echo. LOL 

DD> what do you do with your machines there?) 

I use BootitNG to manage my multiboot, image backups, and any
requirements to repartition or resize existing partitions. What
do you use? 

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