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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.080139.28794@microsoft.com>
- Date: 05 Jan 93 08:01:39 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1hvl3mINN1ss@network.ucsd.edu> <1992Dec31.211600.25410@sequent.com> <1993Jan05.024420.16278@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1993Jan05.024420.16278@microsoft.com> bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson) writes:
- >
- >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?
- >
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- Oh no, not again.
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- Bob, how could you?
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- -Phil
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