Thoughts about - let's talk about the operating system for the ZX-SPECTRUM - iS-DOS from the St. Petersburg company IskraSoft.

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   Now let's get down to business and
let's talk about the operating room
system for ZX-SPECTRUM - iS-DOS
St. Petersburg company "IskraSoft".
Let's talk about its shortcomings. and about
I will ask you about its merits.
our readers. tell it yourself.
and we will reason with you. and taking into account
all the unfinished details
Let’s write one general thing about this system:
letter to the creators iS-DOS from
readers of "PIONEER" and
users ZX-SPECTRUMa.     
   Let's begin.    iS-DOS is
analogous to the famous operating room
systems MS-DOS and shells NORTON
COMMANDER for IBM PC.   This
the statement follows from the Introduction.
written in USER MANUAL
(user manual) for
this operating system. I'll tell you right away.
This is far from true. iS-DOS only
vaguely reminiscent of NORTON
COMMANDER.  only in appearance
in appearance.yes for some functions
when working with files. Not about any
"maximum convenience" and speech
doesn't work.  Just remember
graphic editor "PICASSO".
How long do you have to wait?  bye
this toy will move the picture to
memory.  or rather on disk. After all
while you are working in the editor.
he's always uploading something
to disk.  The question is.  For what.
that 128 kilobytes are not enough for him
memory.    or its creators
counted on users with
computers of 48 kilobytes. yes
in addition with disk drives?
Maybe.  No. but why this
editor.   and the system itself
constantly climbs onto the disk. something
copies. transfers. writes down.
Yes, he doesn’t do anything! Personally
my opinion is that this system is not
viable.   due to very
gross mistakes.  made at
creation.  The system itself
takes up a lot of space
disk.  and therefore may contain
no more than one application
programs.  for example: "Note
book".  "Business calendar" and
so on. If we talk about ourselves
programs.  then no one can argue
there will be. What are these necessaryprograms.
but that. that they are not so economical
consume disk space
does not fit into any framework.
ZX-SPECTRUM is not IBM. and
not every user has
hard drive and so many floppy disks.
The creators had to do
system according to some other
principle.   and not on principle
multi-directory system.
The user must always
wait for it to load
some small file. But.
thank God.    "IskraSoft"
I thought of moving it anyway
some system directories on
RAM DISK.  And at the very first
There is no such thing in versions.   therefore
users were forced
buy more and more new ones
versions of this operating system.  what
led to some material
expenses.  Not freely in the head
thoughts come to mind.   what
the creators did it intentionally
errors in the program.   to
quickly rivet new ones
additional versions.  which
had to buy again. having
already old. This is a good solution
from a commercial point of view
profit.  but not from the point of view
relations with consumers.       
   Now let's talk about management
systems.  It is based on the same
the very principles.as NORTON
COMMANDER.   although everything is here
far from the truth.   Not all
users worked on IBM-
compatible and not everyone can do it
work in NORTON COMMANDER. you
you can tell. what's for this
there is USER MANUAL.  then I'll tell you
I will answer: to understand it.
I'll have to re-read it more than once
this instruction.    which
released in 1993 and not
after that they supplemented with nothing.
despite.  that it's already over
1995 and the program has new and
new versions.   very much
different from each other.     
   Some functions in the program
made very inconveniently.
for example copy function
the entire floppy disk. You didn't have to
mark the time.     which
required for complete
copying floppy to floppy?
   If you don't have two
disk drives   then this procedure
becomes painful until
unrecognizability.                 
   About other shortcomings we
We'll talk in the next issue. Well.
and now the conclusion: operating room
system iS-DOS is
unfinished by the creators
up to moreless than normal looking.
and therefore extremely
adapted to computer
ZX-SPECTRUM.                    
                                
           Best regards          
                                
         Gusmanov Mikhail        
                                
     Cherepovets © 1995 "ATEK"