Messages in this thread | | | Date | 15 Nov 1999 09:38:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers |
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allbery@kf8nh.apk.net (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH) wrote on 14.11.99 in <199911142336.SAA12928@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>:
> That chapter also stated that DOS 3.x would default to a SWITCHAR of "-" and > would add limited multitasking features, and that DOS would gradually be > migrated to full Xenix compatibility, followed by its being fully replaced > by Xenix (!). I sometimes wonder what the computing world would be like if > Microsoft had actually done this....
Let's see.
The plan was to replace DOS with Xenix.
Then the plan was to replace DOS with OS/2.
Currently the plan is to replace DOS ("Windows 98") with NT ("Windows 2000").
I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the plan to change again - and what the next candidate will be ...
Linux? That'd be allmost full circle. ;-)
MfG Kai
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