Making Utilities for MS-DOS
Michael Sokolov
English 4
Mr. Siedlecki
February 1, 1996
Making Utilities for MS-DOS
These days, when computers play an important role in virtually all aspects of
our life, the issue of concern to many programmers is Microsoft\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s hiding of
technical documentation. Microsoft is by far the most important system software
developer. There can be no argument about that. Microsoft\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s MS-DOS operating
system has become a de facto standard (IBM\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s PC-DOS is actually a licensed
version of MS-DOS). And this should be so, because these systems are very well
written. The people who designed them are perhaps the best software engineers in
the world.
But making a computer platform that is a de facto standard should imply a good
deal of responsibility before the......
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