Users who prefer a character-based PC OS will find much to investigate in IBM's new PC DOS 7, including a tape backup facility, a file-synchronization utility, the ability to create compressed drives of up to 2 GB, and many other new attributes. But one feature noticeably absent from this latest version of PC DOS from IBM's Personal Software Products Division (Austin, TX) is the version of the Workplace Shell that was to provide a graphical shell to support task switching, drag-and-drop operation, file management, and other functions for PCs running DOS in real mode. IBM officials say the shell for PC DOS is currently on hold and "may or may not be" ever released.
And what about a n
ew version of MS-DOS? Microsoft officials say the company is currently focused on getting Windows 95 into the channel by August. After that's released, Microsoft will evaluate whether it should further develop MS-DOS. Meanwhile, Novell says that it will no longer release new versions of Novell DOS.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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