Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: DOS 3.3 Message-ID: <8712080914.aa24999@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 09:05:00 EST Article-I.D.: SMOKE.8712080914.aa24999 Posted: Tue Dec 8 09:05:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 11:35:17 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 So far... (sorry, folks my mailer doesn't have one of those handy name and id-tag extractors; I do the best I can with obsolecentequipment). ->IBM is also at version 3.3. Does this mean that this will be the last ->update of MS-DOS, or is this just a coincidence? ->Premature to predict the end of IBM's dominance of desktop computing, It appears that MS-DOS also stops at 3.3 which has nothing to do with whether IBM dominates desktop computing (I thought the PC market was dominated by Asian clone makers anyway). Apple has ProDOS, IBM has OS/2 (supposed to be on retail shelves this month -- memory hog -- has anyone actually seen a copy?). It appears it'll be 6 months to a year before anything other than demoware that actually requires OS/2 will be around) CP/M may have been a "serious" operating system (for cost effective CP/M it made more sense to buy a Z80 computer), but I've been quite serious using DOS 3.3 for some years now (shoot I can remember when 32K was a BIG mainframe). I'm saving my $$$ for a Mac II+ (the 68030 machine); meanwhile I continue plinking away on Apple II and let the big number cruncher (IBM mainframe) do the big stuff. --------------------- ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut