Re: Re: I don't recognize a lot o
By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Thu May 02 2019 08:36 pm

haha.. I've heard people pronounce DR-DOS as "Doctor DOS", and I
don't think that's correct.

I'm inclined to agree, because DR stands for "Digital Research", who released DR-DOS.

Yep, that's correct.

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Re: Re: I don't recognize a lot o
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Wed May 01 2019 09:05 am

haha.. I've heard people pronounce DR-DOS as "Doctor DOS", and I don't think that's correct.

i do too and i know what it stands for and i used it.
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Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

haha.. I've heard people pronounce DR-DOS as "Doctor DOS", and I
don't think that's correct.

I'm inclined to agree, because DR stands for "Digital Research", who released DR-DOS.

Yep, that's correct.

My co-sysop back in the day worked for Addstor, the people that made a
disk compression product called SuperStor that competed with
Microsoft's DriveSpace, and was bundled with DR-DOS. Back then,
Microsoft used to find all sorts of ways to make Windows 3.1 not
install on DR-DOS' memory manager, and they had an array of mysterious incompatibilities with SuperStor.

He called it Doctor DOS; don't know if that's what they called it
internally.



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Re: Re: I don't recognize a lot o
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri May 03 2019 06:23 am

My co-sysop back in the day worked for Addstor, the people that made a disk compression product called SuperStor that competed with
Microsoft's DriveSpace, and was bundled with DR-DOS. Back then,
Microsoft used to find all sorts of ways to make Windows 3.1 not
install on DR-DOS' memory manager, and they had an array of mysterious incompatibilities with SuperStor.

I had heard of Microsoft doing things to make Windows not run well on competing DOS operating systems.. I never really liked Microsoft doing things like that. Also, back in the day, I remember reading that Microsoft was sued by Stac Electronics (maker of Stacker disk compression software) for using Stacker code in their (Microsoft's) DoubleSpace compression software. Around the time of the lawsuit, I remember Microsoft removing DoubleSpace with MS-DOS 6.21 and then introduced DriveSpace in MS-DOS 6.22.

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Re: Re: I don't recognize a lot o
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri May 03 2019 06:23:00

haha.. I've heard people pronounce DR-DOS as "Doctor DOS", and I
don't think that's correct.

People here in NL called it also Doctor DOS but they were aware it was Digital Research behind it, I think too long too pronounce.

My co-sysop back in the day worked for Addstor, the people that made a disk compression product called SuperStor that competed with
Microsoft's DriveSpace, and was bundled with DR-DOS. Back then,
Microsoft used to find all sorts of ways to make Windows 3.1 not
install on DR-DOS' memory manager, and they had an array of mysterious incompatibilities with SuperStor.

I only remember Stacker and DoubleDrive shipped with MS/PC-DOS. I disabled it on my drives back then: too slow and crash=lost everything never again I swore. lol

He called it Doctor DOS; don't know if that's what they called it internally.

We did call it also Doctor... easier to say.
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Re: Re: I don't recognize a lot o
By: Hawkeye to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat May 04 2019 05:17 pm

haha.. I've heard people pronounce DR-DOS as "Doctor DOS", and I
don't think that's correct.

People here in NL called it also Doctor DOS but they were aware it was Digital Research behind it, I think too long too pronounce.

We did call it also Doctor... easier to say.

I think just calling it DR-DOS is even easier.

I only remember Stacker and DoubleDrive shipped with MS/PC-DOS. I disabled it on my drives back then: too slow and crash=lost everything never again I swore. lol

I don't remember a "DoubleDrive", but Microsoft's product shipped with MS-DOS was first DoubleSpace, and then DriveSpace. From what I remember, it was only shipped with MS-DOS and wasn't shipped with PC-DOS. Stacker was a separate product and wasn't shipped with DOS (not sure if that's what you were saying).

Nightfox

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Hawkeye wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I only remember Stacker and DoubleDrive shipped with MS/PC-DOS. I
disabled it on my drives back then: too slow and crash=lost everything never again I swore. lol

Yeah, I got a free copy of SuperStor from my friend who worked there;
before Windows 95 I played with GeoWorks, Dr-DOS and SuperStor.
LANtastic sharing between the BBS and my desktop PC. Nice little setup
for a while before Windows for Workgroups took off.

The concern about losing data was real - back then I was backing the
BBS up on floppies. It wasn't until Windows 95, I think, when I got
one of those HP Colorado tape drives that ran off of your floppy
controller.



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On 05-04-19 15:14, Nightfox wrote to Hawkeye <=-

I think just calling it DR-DOS is even easier.

Works for me. :)


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Re: Re: I don't recognize a lot o
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Hawkeye on Sun May 05 2019 09:11 am

The concern about losing data was real - back then I was backing the
BBS up on floppies. It wasn't until Windows 95, I think, when I got
one of those HP Colorado tape drives that ran off of your floppy controller.

I used to have one of those tape drives that used the floppy interface. I don't remember if it was an HP Colorado or something else (perhaps something that was compatible). I remember that tape drive being fairly loud.. In those days I used to think tape drives were pretty awesome though. I liked being able to back up my entire BBS, and also much of my hard drive, onto a single tape rather than sitting at my PC for a couple hours to swap floppy disks.

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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

something that was compatible). I remember that tape drive being
fairly loud..

fwooooooot <pause> PHWEEEEET!

In those days I used to think tape drives were pretty
awesome though. I liked being able to back up my entire BBS, and also much of my hard drive, onto a single tape rather than sitting at my PC
for a couple hours to swap floppy disks.

I had that Travan drive, then an HP SCSI DDS-2 tape drive, and later
one of those HP 5 tape changers which seemed pretty cool at the time.
All of them were cast-offs from work, it was nice when my company went
to DLT drives and DDS drives became obsolete.


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