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| From | cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.development |
| Subject | Re: z/PDOS-generic |
| Date | 2025-03-10 20:20 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <vqnhhi$atq$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <v7bbdt$2fj5a$1@dont-email.me> <vqnbjg$1g5f7$1@dont-email.me> <CLGzP.935496$t84d.363634@fx11.iad> <20250310130006.00000497@gmail.com> |
In article <20250310130006.00000497@gmail.com>, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote: >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. I don't know much about "business software", so I can't really comment on that, except to say that I imagine a lot of small and perhaps even medium-sized businesses got a lot out of PCs and DOS programs or whatnot. Maybe individuals or small teams in bigger organizations, too. I can also imagine that they would hit a scaling limit pretty quickly, at which point they would want to step up to something more capable. But I do know a lot about operating systems, and the objections to categorizing things like MS-DOS as "a *real* OS" are not mere handwaving that boils down to "Because Reasons"; there are actual definitions in use across the field one can look to, and MS-DOS et al simply do not meet them. It's great that control software in the early PC era let people do useful work with those machines; that doesn't mean that software was good or fit reasonable definitions of what an "Operating System" is. - Dan C.
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Re: z/PDOS-generic Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-08 14:41 -0300
Re: z/PDOS-generic cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-09 01:58 +0000
Re: z/PDOS-generic Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-03-10 09:31 -0300
Re: z/PDOS-generic cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-10 14:28 +0000
Re: z/PDOS-generic scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-03-10 14:46 +0000
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