Re: z/PDOS-generic

From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.development
Subject	Re: z/PDOS-generic
Date	2025-03-10 13:00 -0700
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:07:14 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

> Not really.  Most business software ran on mainframes
> and minicomputers in the MSDOS era.  And once NT arrived, DOS was
> done.
> 
> There was very little _real_ business software written for
> MSDOS.
> 
> Spreadsheets and word processing are a very small portion of
> business computing.  Material planning, resource planning,
> human resources, enterprise payroll applications, etc
> were not really available for MSDOS at any scale.

This is a nicely self-illustrative post, in that you start out with an
incendiary but extremely blinkered (if not flatly untrue) statement and
then spend the remainder of it relocating the goalposts to align with
where you kicked the ball. *Plenty* of business software ran on MS-DOS,
same as other single-tasking, unprotected microcomputer OSes that card-
carrying partisans of larger systems like to count as "not a *real* OS"
Because Reasons, and it's only by redefining "real business" to mean
"large (multi)national corporations" and "business software" to mean
"end-to-end computerized management of the entire business enterprise"
that you can even move your argument out of the realm of "demonstrably
false" and into "arguable, sort of, if you can get people to accept
your definitions exclusively."

C-, see me after class.

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z/PDOS-generic "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-07-18 23:07 +0800
  Re: z/PDOS-generic Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-07-18 22:40 -0500
    Re: z/PDOS-generic "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-07-19 18:43 +0800
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              Re: z/PDOS-generic cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-10 12:38 +0000
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                Re: z/PDOS-generic cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-10 20:20 +0000
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                Re: z/PDOS-generic John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-03-10 15:11 -0700
                Re: z/PDOS-generic cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-10 23:11 +0000
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                Re: z/PDOS-generic cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-11 17:28 +0000
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            Re: z/PDOS-generic "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2025-03-11 05:06 +1100
              Re: z/PDOS-generic scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-03-10 19:01 +0000
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                Re: z/PDOS-generic cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-12 02:34 +0000
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        Re: z/PDOS-generic "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 04:20 +0800
          Re: z/PDOS-generic John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 09:51 -0700
            Re: z/PDOS-generic "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-08-22 13:24 +0800
      Re: z/PDOS-generic Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-07-19 19:46 -0500
        Re: z/PDOS-generic "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 04:18 +0800
    Re: z/PDOS-generic Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-08 14:41 -0300
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          Re: z/PDOS-generic scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-03-10 14:46 +0000

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