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- From: bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.024420.16278@microsoft.com>
- Date: 05 Jan 93 02:44:20 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec23.144151.29932@tc.cornell.edu> <1hvl3mINN1ss@network.ucsd.edu> <1992Dec31.211600.25410@sequent.com>
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- Paul Penrod writes:
- >In article <1hvl3mINN1ss@network.ucsd.edu> mbk@gibbs.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
- >>bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >>: From a programmer's point of view there is no real separation between
- >>: applications & system software. Almost every application involve
- >>: some interaction with the system or system calls. This separation
- >>: exists only in the mind of the FTC.
- >>
- >
- >This presumes of course, that you consider Windows an OS. In fact,
- >ALL commercial applications that I have seen and/ritten have to
- >interact with the systems and systems calls. This is a fact of
- >life, even for UNIX. So your point about separation is groundless.
- >There is a distinction between what constitutes an application and
- >what contitutes an OS. That was a thread argued to death long
- >before your postings started appearing here.
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-
- I missed this earlier argument; can you help me understand its jist? How
- would you characterize the difference between an application and an OS?
-
- Is DOS an OS? Is Windows an OS, or a DOS App? Is Lotus Notes an OS, or a
- Windows app? When I have an OLE-embedded Lotus-123-for-Windows sheet
- embedded in a WinWord document, is the Lotus-Winword relationship app-app
- or app-os?
-
-
- Bob
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