From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 10 17:18:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15018 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:18:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA15013 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:18:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from hellcat.umd.edu by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0w4GCk-00092uC; Mon, 10 Mar 97 17:18 PST Received: from thurston.eng.umd.edu (thurston.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.25]) by hellcat.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA28674; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:14:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by thurston.eng.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.6.4) with SMTP id UAA06298; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:14:21 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: thurston.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:14:20 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@thurston.eng.umd.edu To: Terry Lambert cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns In-Reply-To: <199703110007.RAA24037@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > As to your question, it's a non-sequitur... DOS supports .EXE files, > but BIOS POST does not. You also presume (incorrectly) that DOS is > an OS. Terry, I may not think very highly of DOS, even given the context in which it was written, but it is an OS, at least I maintain it is. Could you defend that remark? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------