Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:03:54 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml Message-ID: <1093374233.725.63.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040824184131.GC760@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200408241800.i7OI0p8J029409@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040824182046.GA1877@gothmog.gr> <20040824184131.GC760@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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--=-/X/f2KeLUF0cVqZhgu7r Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:41, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > As I see it, DOS means all variants (including MS-DOS, DR-DOS, IBM-DOS > and so on) where MS-DOS refers specifically to MS-DOS. In the context > of FreeBSD documentation I think in most cases when referring to > MS-DOS, it would apply to other DOS variants as well. Although this is almost totally irrelevent in this context, DOS can refer to operating systems other than MS-DOS workalikes...the first example that comes to my mind is the Disk Operating System that ran on Apple IIs long before Microsoft cared about PCs. [1] Bruce. [1] It's not *totally* irrelevant in that if someone were to write some Handbook text about running Apple II emulators such as kegs under FreeBSD, they'd probably be talking about DOS in a non-PC context. [2] [2] I'm feeling silly...must be time for lunch. --=-/X/f2KeLUF0cVqZhgu7r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBK5EZ2MoxcVugUsMRAtmtAJ9GhoZxMPwyzgeewBu5RKHHOBHbbwCgnrFf LrTfk7IfG8/8RQdrKFLvFaU= =HqDM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/X/f2KeLUF0cVqZhgu7r--
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