Portable OS's (was: Re: Do OS's slow down with age?)

[pri=-10 Stuart Lynne]

In article <226 at gp.govt.nz> gpwrdcs at gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, Govt Print, Wellington) writes:
}In article <579 at mcl.UUCP>, stacy at mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions) writes:
}as the MS-DOS does not acheive this basic aim ... to do anything useful under
}MS-DOS you have to go straight into the hardware and control the machine
}directly, and occasionally modify the OS accordingly.  On a *REAL* OS, there
}is never any need to do this.

On *REAL* OS it is not possible to do this! (Access hardware directly that
is.)  :-)


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