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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:27:43 GMT
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- Gregory R Block (bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu) wrote:
- :
- : >Most of the computer industry believes that Windows is not a worthwhile OS?
- : >I wasn't aware of this.
- :
- : A great deal, lad. Much of the industry has problems beleiving it's
- : an OS at all, remember?
- :
-
- That's not what I see. The only people I've seen claim that Windows is not
- an OS are fanatics of one system or another. Unfortunately, they run into
- serious trouble when they try to classify it as something else...
-
- :
- : What was that millions of users argument? Maybe we should all drop
- : our Coherent/AmigaOS/OS-9/Plan 9 boxes and just run MS-DOS! We'll
- : stick a program that has user-writable subprograms under it, and we'll
- : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- : call it Windows! NOT.
- :
-
- See what I mean?
-
- :
- : Windows is, in the end, a program that runs under MS-DOS and allows
- : user subprograms to run under it. As a program, it's a great feat.
- : As an OS, it's a kludge, a hack, and rather inefficient in some
- : places.
- :
-
- I always found it rather well-designed and powerful. It has complete
- device independence for graphics, sound, and printing devices. How many
- kludges and hacks are this flexible?
-
- :
- : I'm not going to get into this any further, because I've said more
- : than enough on the subject. Suffice to say that one would call Unix
- : and Plan 9 worthwhile because they are.
- :
-
- As is Windows.
-
- :
- : Agreed. Windows NT could be one of the OSes of the decade.
- : Unfortunately, it's going to miss that mark by twice as much as OS/2
- : did.
- :
-
- How can you say that without ever seeing the released product?
-
- : Greg
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