Re: Fred Linux Annoyance List.

On 16 Oct 2003 at 12:51, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
> MS-DOS does not have the silly mouse thing. MS-DOS does not have these

Really? Try calling Int 33H, this is the MS-DOS mouse interrupt.

Many years ago I wrote a DOS program to create little pictures 
(32x32 pixels) in 16 colours and it was mouse driven. It ran 
under DOS not windows.

XTree and XTgold used the mouse for toggling between windows or 
copying. I suspect Norton's commander did too.

Before windows was introduced, I used a graphical interface 
called 'Quikmenu'  which was in many ways superior to windows 
except that it didn't multitask (DOS limitation). It was 
entirely mouse driven.

So I'm sorry but MS-DOS had the silly little mouse thing, and 
you just don't know what you're talking about.

> Internet annoyances. MS-DOS has no kernel keeping you from accessing
> your hardware.

Yes there is, it is called the MS-DOS kernel, and it is 
contained in the file (attributes sh) called msdos.sys which is 
loaded after the bios (io.sys) in the boot sequence. Have a look 
in the root directory of your C:\ drive.

 There are a million application programs that will run
> on MS-DOS.

But not as many as on unix :^)

And you can't pipe (nor tee) from one program to the next like 
you can in unix. BIG DRAWBACK!!!

John