Re: Dead or alive...

On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 10:30:59 -0700, mjcr <mjc...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> In article <lij...@4ax.com>, "drsquare"
><now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:44:14 -0000, in alt.ascii-art,
>>  (anonymous@bogus_address.con) wrote:
>> 
>>>On 2001-09-24 now...@nowhere.co.uk said:
>>>
>>>   >Why would you want to use DOS anyway? It's the worst OS there is.
>>>
>>>Not so.  DOS is a small, relatively efficient O.S. ...unlike that
>>>bloated pointee-clickee abomination.
>> 
>> Linux is an even smaller, yet much more efficient OS, which, get this,
>> actually lets you run more than one program at once. You can even fit it
>> on a boot disk.
> 
> drsquare, you can not sell people on the use of Linux by employing such
> lies anf half truths. A very minimal Linux can be made to fit on a floppy
> or two; however, that would be be workable for only certain limited
> purposes, such as running a firewall/router, a rescue floppy, or a
> emergency restore from backups.  But that is not what your are refering to
> here, you are referring to a boot floppy, that is a floppy disk that
> contains only the Linux kernel or perhaps a Linux kernel and a boot loader
> like syslinux or lilo.


www.toms.net has a single floppy system, (running on a floppy formatted
to 1.7MB.) It's not smaller than dos, but it is very full featured.
Including of course a full tcp-ip stack which dos lacked, and all the
other niceties that a modern OS brings with it. It would be an error to
claim that it was as small as dos, but it's not much bigger, and it does
oh-so much  more. 
 (Tom's rootboot rocks!)  IMHO, the best of the single floppy distros.

>> No it doesn't, you can't even change the code, let alone change how it
>> works. Linux is the OS of choice if you want full control.
> 
> Are you still unaware of FreeDos for which the source code is freely
> available?  If you need to alter Dos's code, that is the one to try.

When someone says dos, it's usually in reference to MS-DOS, which you
cannot (legally) change the code of.

> 
> 
> Offer benchmarks to support your statement, or do not make such claims.
>

true, wild exagerations are counterproductive.
 

-- 
Jim Richardson
	Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
	Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

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