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   Dan Cross to Scott Lurndal   
   Re: z/PDOS-generic   
   19 Jul 24 23:31:32   
   
   From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >BGB-Alt  writes:   
   >>On 7/19/2024 11:18 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >>> "Paul Edwards"  writes:   
   >>>> Sure - but why not make it available anyway?   
   >>>   
   >>> MS-DOS is, was, and always will be a toy.  It's not even   
   >>> a real operating system.   
   >>>   
   >>> No mainframe user would ever be interested in something   
   >>> so simplisticly useless.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>It has a FAT filesystem   
   >   
   >  Poor performance, silly filename length limitations.   
   >   
   >>, MZ loader,   
   >   
   > whatever that might be.   
   >   
   >   
   >>and basic console printing and   
   >>memory allocation... These cover the main bases for what one needs for   
   >>an operating system.   
   >   
   >Not on a millon dollar mainframe.   
      
   Please don't feed the troll.  Or do; it's not like this   
   newsgroup gets much more traffic except for this guy's   
   weird dos clone and ramblings aout mainframes.   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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