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- From: tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
- Message-ID: <TGUEZ.92Aug25204053@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:50:59 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: tguez@jade.tufts.edu's message of Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:28:09 GMT
-
- > Multi-tasking does not appear in DOS, at least ver 5.0, and since it
- > appears in windows that maybe an argument that windows is an operating
- > system having introduce this giant step. To remove this point from
- > any oppositors to the view I presented I said that no one considers
- > DesqView as an opeating system. If windows has A, and is claimed to
- > be an OP, and DesqView also has A but is not held as operating system,
- > then A is not a prerequisite to an operating system. Now, that we
- > have removed mutli-tasking as an argument, we narrowed and focused the
- > problem, I hold that concepts of primitives, layered programming, and
- > information hiding are being confused here with an Operating System.
- >
- > Cheers,
- > Tomer Guez
- > Tufts University
- "If windows has A, and is claimed to be an OP, and DesqView also has A
- but is not held as operating system, then A is not a prerequisite to
- an operating system" This should read, "then A alone does not make an
- operating system."
-
- Sorry,
- Tomer
-