steve@wolf.UUCP (Steve Harrison) (05/21/86)
I cannot sit back and listen to the things one computer magazine is saying about a large computer company in the US and it's wonderful new technological breakthrough in O/S's without making a comment. PC-Week has hit new limits (depths that is) in managing to talk the public into believing in a large Blue God! I am sure this article will draw some comments by anyone who read the front page story of PC-Week May 20, 1986. I think it is time that someone say something and I welcome all comments from the net. I intend on summarizing all and sending a letter off to the editors! Throughout this article, written by Garry Ray, he talks of the new operating system which IBM is planning to release, in MARCH 1987!, and how IBM has been presenting it to developers and software houses in technical seminars. "Sources" claim that the new operating system will split the IBM PC product line. Does this sound familiar to any of you! Garry even states at one point, and I quote, "To speed processing of multiple applications, and to conserve system memory, the operating system will be able to allocate and deallocate regions of memory based on a least recently used algorithm. For example, should memory be needed by an application, the operating system could send a program segment to disk, subsequently reloading it to memory when needed again". If this doesn't sound like an operating system that has been in use for years (say 15!) I must have been on another world these last 20 years! Even micros have had capability now for over three years! It is time for PC Users to begin to awaken and see the light at the end of the tunnel. The operating system that I keep hearing that "power" PC users want is already there when will someone (maybe AT&T) start informing them of this? An operating system due to be released in March 1987 is a rather ludicrous pie in the sky to wait for when something is already there. Shame on PC Week for such one sided reporting. I am beginning to wonder what type of journalism is practiced there. To Garry Ray I say, this has been posted from a PC/AT running SCO XENIX System V that routinely supports (say 6 hours a day) 2 dial-in busers and 2 uucp connections. It can be done now! AT&T has even moved on to a better scheme that what IBM is proposing for its "new" DOS. Steven Harrison Systems'n'Software ihnp4!jack!man!wolf!steve
jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) (05/22/86)
The interesting sentence in this article was the part about "whose internal processes resemble those in Microsoft Windows." I don't know as much as I'd like, but that sounds like they are doing a message-based system, or at least using a metaphor to that effect. That doesn't sound too much like un+x. I didn't see in the article that the new DOS was being supplied by Microsoft, or particularly, non-proprietary. They also seem to imply that the DOS has "dynamic linking." Other whiz-bang features described at the end of the article "sound real neat." So is this all MS-DOS I.J? or what.
mikeb@tekfdi.UUCP (Mike Boyce) (05/26/86)
In article <123@wolf.UUCP>, steve@wolf.UUCP (Steve Harrison) writes: > I cannot sit back and listen to the things one computer magazine > is saying about a large computer company in the US and it's wonderful > new technological breakthrough in O/S's without making a comment. > > PC-Week has hit new limits (depths that is) in managing to talk the > public into believing in a large Blue God! Always remember when reading these rags what their purpose is and who they make thier money from. One glance at these types of publications will tell. Yes, you guessed it, ADVERTISING. They don't worship Big Blue or Death Star. They are not trying to aid their readership (oh, maybe once in while to keep good standing). They are trying to make money. The people who make the products are trying to make money. And they've got millions of schmucks out there, (Yeah I'm one too), slobbering over new products and prices. I had a logic class in school once where the instructor had us dissect some of these ads. If you go through the article you will most likely find nothing untrue. But you won't find much in the way of facts either. You will find alot of hype. ITS NOT WHAT THEY SAY ITS WHAT THEY DONT SAY. We all have to read these rags to stay in touch with whats happening. Just remember that its an ad. Watch out for for hype. And every time someone uses an ad as fact, point out the error. If they persist go get the article and a highliter and find the facts (rigorously, no half facts please). Sometimes you can find some really amazing misinfo. Try it. Mike Boyce ============================================================================= DISCLAMOR: These views are mine and not those of my employer. I am not saying that PC WEEK or any other publication is doing anything illegal or immoral. Advertising is an American Institution and I will defend anyones right to freedom of speech. I will also defend anyones right to not believe a damn word of it. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk ?###################################################################@_0&&&&& Hackers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but you ball and chain.
jso@edison.UUCP (John Owens) (06/04/86)
> The interesting sentence in this article was the part about > "whose internal processes resemble those in Microsoft Windows." > > So is this all MS-DOS I.J? or what. Yes, indeed, this is MS-DOS 5.0. I don't know if MS is supplying it to others *yet*.... [Note the earlier PC Week article about MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking, no protected mode), that most american vendors decided to skip, waiting for 5.0. This is it.] John Owens edison!jso%virginia@CSNet-Relay.ARPA [old arpa] edison!jso@virginia.EDU [w/ nameservers] jso@edison.UUCP [w/ uucp domains] {cbosgd allegra ncsu xanth}!uvacs!edison!jso [roll your own]