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Posted by Jay G. on 09/30/67 11:50
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:04:50 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:49:54 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>
>>On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:16:23 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186
>>>> "They were not used in many personal computers, but there were some
>>>> notable exceptions: the Mindset, the Siemens PC-D (the first DOS PC
>>>> line of Siemens, with MSDOS v2.11)...."
>>>>
>>> Euro clones do not seem to bring the term "notable" to mind...
>>> sorry.
>>
>>Who said notable?
>
> You did dumbfuck. Look up 8 lines.
No I didn't. That's a quote from a link *you* provided. So if anyone said
it, it was you.
>> You said MS DOS 2.11 "never got use by anyone," which is
>>demonstrably untrue.
>
> Not by anyone that had any brains.
So you admit that it was used, possibly by you.
> MS DOS 3.0 was the first useable release.
Funny, since people had been using MS DOS for 3 years previous to the
release of 3.0
> Lotus, AutoCAD, expanded memory... all those would not work
> under the DOS that never was. Try again.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-NDHistory/
"The first release of Notes shipped in 1989."
"The Notes client required DOS 3.1"
So 3.0 wasn't "usable" in terms of Lotus. And the reason it required 3.1
was because it was released 5 years after DOS 3.1 had been in the market.
As for AutoCAD:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_36.html
"In November 1982 we introduced AutoCAD"
http://mbinfo.mbdesign.net/CAD1980.htm
"1982 In November at COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas was demonstrated
the first CAD program in the world that runs on PC. This was the
initial release of AutoCAD and deliveries began in December."
DOS 3.0 didn't come out until 1984. In fact, the first AutoCAD came out
before DOS 2.11
And as for extended memory:
http://www.thezac.com/MicrosoftHistory/05_ms-dos40.html
"In 1988, MS-DOS 4.0 introduced extended memory"
http://www.nukesoft.co.uk/msdos/dosversions.shtml
"4.0 1988 This version provided XMS support.."
All that 3.0 added was:
http://www.nukesoft.co.uk/msdos/dosversions.shtml
"3.0 1984 Support for high-density (1.2 MB) floppy disks
and 32 MB hard disks was added."
So you were wrong with 3 out of 3 things you claimed that DOS 3.0 could do
over DOS 2.11.
-Jay
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