Warp wrote:
>   Would you call Unix a "modern operating system"?

Only in the sense that there haven't been a whole lot of fundamental 
improvements in OS concepts since then.  At least, not that have caught on. 
It's possible to be both old and modern: see plumbing, for example.

>   But if you like, we could settle with: MS-DOS is not an operating system
> by modern standards.

I'm happy with "MS-DOS is a very limited OS that I wouldn't want to use for 
general purpose computing these days." :-) I don't think we actually have to 
settle into agreement here. The discussion was interesting, tho.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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