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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 developers who make applications for that
platform. In particular, proper documentation is essential for such a platform.
Not providing enough documentation for a system that everyone uses......

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