No argument from me. Different strokes for different folks. As to DOS,
the reason that it worked more reliably for you was that, even if you
bought it from Microsoft via a clone maker, the bulk of the code was
previously system tested by my team at IBM... although I didn't get
there until DOS 3.2 :-) And the ultimate DOS is IBM PC-DOS 7 not to be
confused with Microsoft DOS 7 which underlies Windows 95. One of my
developer/testers (the best assembler programmer I know) took it upon
himself as a personal project to fix every last known bug in Microsoft's
6.22. IBM PC-DOS 7 is truly squeaky clean.
Chuck Norcutt
khen lim wrote:
> Chuck
>
> You're right...it was me. I did say that and till today, I'm just so beaten
> by that experience. Losing a user profile all of a sudden leaves you cold
> and unprepared. <big snip>
>
> Sorry Chuck, I'm not looking for an argument here but my personal
> experiences with updates that cost me a completely missing user profile
> wasn't funny and I sure don't want any such thing to happen to me (again) or
> my users. Sometimes I do wish for the simplicity of DOS. Those, might be
> dark days for some, but for me, I can see some perverse sense of peace.
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