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- Path: sparky!uunet!murphy!jpradley!grumpy
- From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
- Subject: Re: Origins of IBM / Microsoft rift
- Reply-To: grumpy@jpradley.UUCP (Jeff Markel)
- Organization: Unix in NYC
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:33:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.123325.8107@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <1992Aug6.142717.18917@ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Aug07.024657.26715@microsoft.com> <1992Aug7.070118.23970@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Aug07.192831.17275@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Aug07.192831.17275@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- >Okay, check the similarities here.
- >DOS is a bios app that loads and runs applications.
- >OS/2 is a bios app that loads and runs applications.
- >...
- >
- >After dos passes off control to Windows, Windows owns the system.
- >All dos provides is a filesystem service. Does it really matter in
- >what order something is loaded as to whether it is an OS or not.
- >I would think that the functionality determins whether it is an
- >OS.
- >
- >petesk@microsoft.com
- >My Opinions....or was that Onions.
- >
- >
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- OS/2 doesn't really use the BIOS, so it CAN'T be a BIOS app.
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- Jeff Markel
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