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Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 10/07/72 11:50
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:26:07 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>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
I said expanded, not extended.
Ever heard of QEMM?
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