From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 7: 5:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netsrvr.ami.com.au (netsrvr.ami.com.au [203.55.31.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0C537B71B for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:04:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from summer@os2.ami.com.au) Received: from dugite.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:root@c0s20.ami.com.au [203.55.31.85]) by netsrvr.ami.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA19326 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:04:45 +0800 Received: from possum.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:summer@possum.os2.ami.com.au [192.168.1.6]) by dugite.os2.ami.com.au (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f2PNJK613528 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:19:20 +0800 Message-Id: <200103252319.f2PNJK613528@dugite.os2.ami.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & GNU In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:28:45 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:22:28 +0800 From: John Summerfield Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lists@vivdev.com said: > >a competitive DOS to MS-DOS and price it cheaper and split the DOS > market. >It never worked because DR-DOS didn't offer any increased > functionality over >regular MS-DOS that was significant enough to > induce people to switch. > The DR-DOS experience as you've laid it out supports my view, in that > DR-DOS _wasn't_ an alternative other than in name. I bought DRDOS because it had one advantage over MSDOS. There were others, but drive compression was included in DRDOS and the alternative was to buy Stacker or something else (and Stacker cost more that DRDOS). As I recall, DRDOS also had better disk caching (and so I didn't need PC Lightning any more) and memory management (QEMM). -- Cheers John Summerfield http://www2.ami.com.au/ for OS/2 & linux information. Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index. Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message