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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!acsu.buffalo.edu!pleung From: pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: *** Is FreeBSD easy to install ??? *** Date: 9 Oct 1996 13:31:26 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 41 Message-ID: <53g9fe$e8j@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <3248ab21.5993197@news.inetnow.net> <53ens0$lrs@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: yeager.cs.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: pleung X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : jin@george.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) wrote: : > DOS is an operating system even though MS-DOS is a junk designed : > O.S. by whoever wrote it. The basic O.S. function is to load program : > for human being. : No. The basic function of an OS is to handle the hardware. DOS : handles the hardware so poor that most programs handle it on their : own. That's why the programs are unportable, you cannot even replace : the graphics console by a serial console for 99.9 % of them (with the : minor exceptions of command.com and symdeb.exe). funny and true. ;-)) it also sucks big time when it comes to memory management. That's why some people buy and use other memory managers to install on top of their msdos boxes, like QEMM, RAM doubler, MAX. Believe me, no programmer I know likes the way MSDOS handles memory. : Basically, the only DOS service that is moderately in use is the : filesystem. The FAT file system stinks too. Ever wonder why your harddrive seems to keep getting slower and slower? It's because you get disk fragmentation very easily over time. And your filenames are limited to 8+3 characters. Windoze 95 tries to get around all these problems... but it really only introduces new problems. I admit that no one OS is perfect, and each has it's own problems, but some are worse than others. By now, the worst of the worst OS that I've seen thus far are those made by Microsoft. And in answer to the original poster's questin, FreeBSD is supereasy to install. ;-)) Patrick Leung, pleung@cs.buffalo.edu "Pardon me, sir-- Which way to the Wizard of Oz?" "Just follow the information super-highway--"