cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2004.08.24 12:47:41 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 12:33, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > DOS simply is a disk based OS. (As opposed to earlier paper tape and
> > magnetic tape based systems.
>
> Right...I was just trying to make the point (perhaps poorly) that "DOS"
> doesn't necessarily refer to anything MS-DOS related.

Well, while technically true, I doubt that would be confused about
this...  "New" users [1] will probably never have heard of any DOS
other than MS-DOS (and "clones").  People who have heard of other
operating systems named DOS will probably be wise enough to derive
from the context that we are refering to MS-DOS (and "clones")... :-).

> Seen 'em, touched 'em, but never used 'em.  I have, however, spent a
> little time on IBM Model 029 card punches.  Leftover cards (er, well, I
> guess they're almost *all* leftover nowadays) make great bookmarks.  :-)

Hehe.

[1] That would also include me :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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