Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 11:32:44 11/19/98
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On November 19, 1998 at 04:49:14, Albert Silver wrote: >On November 18, 1998 at 20:14:37, wayne johnson wrote: > >>Microsoft dos may end; but, there is still alot of dos machines being used. >>I have a few dos chess programs that compute much faster and more >>accurately--then supposedly better windows counter-parts--when I run them on a >>486 intel 100mz chip. There are quite a few chessplayers at my local club who >>only own an ibm xt and they seem to do just as well in their ratings. So if you >>have children and can't really afford a IBM clone that runs at 300mz--and the >>professional chess software programs that also cost alot of green. I don't >>forsee a complete end to dos..... > >Quite true. Here in Brazil, apart from the really rich companies, 386's and >486's are the norm. Even a few innovative (for Rio) newstands control their >sales and inventory with a low-end machine. Besides, the future of OSs seems to >be either limited to bloatware or Linux (though music program specialists seem >to like beOS). Time will tell. For a funny article on the upcoming Windows 2000, >you might like to see John Dvorak's article in PC Magazine Online: >http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/insites/dvorak/jd.htm > > Albert Silver Isn't it true that to load an OS on a PC one needs the CDROM drivers and the only way to do this on machines that don't boot from the CDROM is to first load the CDROM drivers via DOS? -- Komputer Korner
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