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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Bill Gates: What a weenie...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.183230.17029@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1993Jan7.160729.9080@nosc.mil>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:32:30 GMT
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- discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:
- [....]
- : >I have watched how Microsofties like to re-define terms. They call Windows
- : >an operating system.
- :
- : WAIT A MINUTE! Windows *is* an operating system (we can start that debate
- : again?) There was no redefinition on "Microsofties" part... there seemed
- : to be a redefinition on "modern OS believer's" part... the same kind of
- : people who would say "...a Stanley Steamer is not a car... now, the Ferrari
- : Testarossa--THAT'S a car..."
-
- I have no wish to get embroiled in a long-running debate again either,
- *but*: I'll accept that Windows is an OS when I see somebody running
- it on a system which doesn't have DOS (or DRDOS or something else) present.
-
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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