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- From: rommel@jonas.bofe.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS an OS?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <713621522snx@jonas.bofe.sub.org>
- References: <65337@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 12:12:02 GMT
- Organization: Private
- Lines: 29
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- gt0059e@prism.gatech.EDU writes in article <65337@hydra.gatech.EDU>:
- > I know you all have probably heard this quote before but I will post it
- > for those that have not (probably in slightly mangled form and I don't
- > remember the persons name who said it.)
- >
- > "DOS is a non-reentrant interrupt handler and always will be."
- >
- > or was it;
- >
- > "DOS is disk based, non-reentrant interrrupt handler and always will be."
- >
- > or . . .
-
- Please see my .sig :-)
-
- This sentence was written in a mail message by Russell Williams long
- time ago, when I had some mail exchange with him, at a time when he
- worked at Microsoft, I think. Quite a number of people seem to like
- this .sig ... and probably some don't :-)
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
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- /* Kai Uwe Rommel Muenchen, Germany *
- * rommel@jonas.bofe.sub.org Phone +49 89 723 4101 *
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-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
-