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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:47:41 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        cvs-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml
Message-ID:  <1093376861.725.76.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20040824193308.92BAE5D04@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20040824193308.92BAE5D04@ptavv.es.net>

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On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 12:33, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> DOS simply is a disk based OS. (As opposed to earlier paper tape and
> magnetic tape based systems.

Right...I was just trying to make the point (perhaps poorly) that "DOS"
doesn't necessarily refer to anything MS-DOS related.

>  Of course, most of the folks who read this
> have probably never seen a paper tape reader and could not conceive of
> an OS that actually ran on it.)

Seen 'em, touched 'em, but never used 'em.  I have, however, spent a
little time on IBM Model 029 card punches.  Leftover cards (er, well, I
guess they're almost *all* leftover nowadays) make great bookmarks.  :-)

Bruce.


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