In news:h28bda$dik$1@news.motzarella.org,
Barry Watzman typed on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:05:12 -0400:
> No, Bill, there was MS-DOS version 1. It shipped with the original
> IBM-PC (version 2 shipped with the PC-XT, and introduced support for
> hard drives and folders).

Nope the original IBM-PC came with PC-DOS and not MS-DOS. As there was
no reason for MS-DOS anything since the IBM-PCs already came with
PC-DOS. That is until Compaq first reversed engineered the first IBM
clone by reverse engineering the only proprietary part called the IBM
BIOS. Then the whole clone market opened up and Bill Gates finally got
rich by selling MS-DOS versions.

> Re: XP SP2 vs. SP3; there is almost no OBVIOUS difference. But there
> are a lot of internal differences, almost all of them related to
> security. SP3 is simply the collection of all of the security updates
> that occurred over a roughly 3 year period. It plugs a lot of holes,
> but makes very few outward changes. If you had run "windows upgrade"
> religiously, you have most of it. But are you SURE that you didn't
> miss anything?

Well an updated SP2 doesn't break OE6 auto-compress mode for starters.
While SP3 does for one. And at least two of my SP2 systems has never
missed an update (well they skipped the SP3, IE7 and 8 and the .Net
updates). Neither has my SP3 system missed an update come to think about
it (just the .Net and IE updates).

> Microsoft has imposed some limits on the "power" of a system for it to
> be eligible for a "netbook" OS. I don't think that 1GB max memory is
> one of those limits; I recall that a 12" or smaller screen size was
> one of them. I have seen the list, and it's available online but I
> don't remember all of it's items.

Yeah well... I serious doubt Larry's claim that 1GB was one of them. As
if that is all it takes, I would be building 1GB machines and getting XP
licenses myself. <grin>

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Bill
Windows XP Pro SP2 (5.1.2600)
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC