Re: Fred Linux Annoyance List.

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 09:46, John wrote:
> 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.

I think that his point was that DOS doesn't protect the hardware.  It's
really more of a control program than an Operating System.  You can
access the hardware directly under DOS.  In Unix, you cannot.

>  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
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