From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 19:33:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A09216A4CE; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B4143D49; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:33:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:33:08 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 92BAE5D04; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:33:08 -0700 (PDT) To: "Bruce A. Mah" In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:03:54 PDT." <1093374233.725.63.camel@localhost> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:33:08 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20040824193308.92BAE5D04@ptavv.es.net> cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" cc: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:33:09 -0000 > From: "Bruce A. Mah" > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:03:54 -0700 > Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org > > > --=-/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. Almost all computers "of a certain age" have had an operating system called DOS. In the early '70s I ran DOS on our PDP-11/40. DOS simply is a disk based OS. (As opposed to earlier paper tape and magnetic tape based systems. 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.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634