It's as easy to fix as fixing the bugs in MS-DOS
-- abandon it for better software.

You mean use FreeDOS? ;)

LOL! Yeah, that's probably a better alternative. More easily available is the dos emulator in Windows (CMD.EXE).


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Bj”rn Felten wrote to Richard Menedetter <=-

It's as easy to fix as fixing the bugs in MS-DOS
-- abandon it for better software.

You mean use FreeDOS? ;)

LOL! Yeah, that's probably a better alternative. More easily
available is the dos emulator in Windows (CMD.EXE).

How is that "more easily available" than FreeDOS?

I don't have any computers running Windoze here, and don't want any.



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How is that "more easily available" than FreeDOS?

Microsoft's Windows was the dominant desktop operating system (OS) worldwide as of July 2023, with a market share of around 70 percent.


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Hello Bj?rn.

17 Oct 23 18:10, you wrote to Dan Clough:

How is that "more easily available" than FreeDOS?

Microsoft's Windows was the dominant desktop operating system (OS) worldwide as of July 2023, with a market share of around 70 percent.

You're information is outdated. In July 2023 it was:

- Android - 40%
- MS Windows - 29%
- iOS - 17%

and others.

Vitaliy

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Vitaliy,

You're information is outdated. In July 2023 it was:

- Android - 40%
- MS Windows - 29%
- iOS - 17%

and others.

Stay away from the cheap vodka ... 8-)

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Vitaliy Aksyonov wrote to Bj?rn Felten <=-

17 Oct 23 18:10, you wrote to Dan Clough:

How is that "more easily available" than FreeDOS?

Microsoft's Windows was the dominant desktop operating system (OS) worldwide as of July 2023, with a market share of around 70 percent.

You're information is outdated. In July 2023 it was:

- Android - 40%
- MS Windows - 29%
- iOS - 17%

Well..... he did say *desktop* operating system.

How many desktops run Android...?

That's right.



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Bj”rn Felten wrote to Dan Clough <=-

How is that "more easily available" than FreeDOS?

Microsoft's Windows was the dominant desktop operating system
(OS) worldwide as of July 2023, with a market share of around 70
percent.

That may be true, I don't really know. My guess is that it's something
less than that.

What I do know is that to actually have/use that OS, you have to either purchase it, or break the law and use a pirated copy. To use FreeDOS, one simply has to download it and use it.

So, I ask again - how is Windoze more easily available than FreeDOS? Literally *ANYONE* can have a legal copy of FreeDOS within 2 minutes of reading this message.

I therefore declare your claim to be false/wrong.

Case closed. NEXT!






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Dan Clough -> Bj”rn Felten skrev 2023-10-18 02:52:

What I do know is that to actually have/use that OS, you have to either purchase it,

Or you can purchase a desktop computer. When was the last time you bought a desktop computer, other than an Apple variant, that did *not* have Windows pre-installed?


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Re: Question on FTS-0001
By: deon to Rob Swindell on Tue Oct 17 2023 08:59 am

Re: Question on FTS-0001
By: Rob Swindell to Andrew Leary on Sun Oct 15 2023 02:03 pm

FTS-1 doesn't deal with echomail. If any FTSC doc needed "correction" (I'd say "clarification") in this regard, it'd be FTS-4.

I'd disagree.

The norm/rules for netmail and echomail are different.

The question that I started was (and I'll paraphrase) what was the origNet/origNode represent in a packed message header.

The answers I've seen are:
* Its the source message address,
* Its the last hop's address

It should be known as one or the other.

The english description "orig..." implies it is from the source of the message, ie: the originator, but convention seems to be that it represents the last hop.

That should be clarified and updated.

FTS-1 doesn't deal with echomail. You can wish it did, but it just doesn't.
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Or you can purchase a desktop computer. When was the last time you
bought a desktop computer, other than an Apple variant, that did *not*
have Windows pre-installed?

I have never in my life bought a desktop computer, prefer to build 'm myself that way I know what's in it, what it does and how to repair it.

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Re: Question on FTS-0001
By: Rob Swindell to deon on Tue Oct 17 2023 11:24 pm

FTS-1 doesn't deal with echomail. You can wish it did, but it just doesn't.

I dont wish it did.

FTS-0001 talks about packed messages - which is what I'm talking about.

I'm not sure what your refering to though...


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Hey Björn!

When was the last time you bought a desktop computer,

Fairly recently except I call them PCs, sometimes servers when appropriate.

other than an Apple variant,

Never. Vastly overpriced label makers.

that did *not* have Windows pre-installed?

That never happened. I did have a laptop that had Windows pre-installed but it never stood a chance and it never got booted before the drive was wiped out and replaced with Linux. I still have it but hardly ever use it. The last thing I installed on there was the latest Slackware-current. It needs upgrading. I figure linux-6.6 which should be soon.

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Bj”rn Felten wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Dan Clough -> Bj”rn Felten skrev 2023-10-18 02:52:

What I do know is that to actually have/use that OS, you have to either purchase it,

Or you can purchase a desktop computer.

Okay, so even though you won't say it, you do concede that getting/using FreeDOS is indeed more readily available.

When was the last time you bought a desktop computer, other than an
Apple variant, that did *not* have Windows pre-installed?

Probably around 1996 or so. I don't buy desktop computers. I buy the
pieces and assemble them myself, and Windoze is not part of that.

Game. Set. Match.



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Re: Question on FTS-0001
By: deon to Rob Swindell on Wed Oct 18 2023 07:04 pm

Re: Question on FTS-0001
By: Rob Swindell to deon on Tue Oct 17 2023 11:24 pm

FTS-1 doesn't deal with echomail. You can wish it did, but it just doesn't.

I dont wish it did.

FTS-0001 talks about packed messages - which is what I'm talking about.

I'm not sure what your refering to though...

FTS-1 talks about packed *netmail* messages, which are different than packed *echomail* messages.
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