Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:33:08 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml Message-ID: <20040824193308.92BAE5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:03:54 PDT." <1093374233.725.63.camel@localhost>
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> From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> > 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
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