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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.163029.12979@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1961cd20@p3.f67.n245.z2.fidonet.org> <TGUEZ.92Aug24191246@jade.tufts.edu> <1992Aug25.040007.5898@cco.caltech.edu> <TGUEZ.92Aug25151752@jade.tufts.edu> <1992Aug26.044858.25614@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:30:29 GMT
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- heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:
-
- >tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name) writes:
-
- >>In article <1992Aug25.040007.5898@cco.caltech.edu> heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:
-
- >>Well it was my guess that there is something like malloc underneath.
- >>You put it nicely, "internal abstraction," everythig in windows API
- >>seemed to be aimed at an "internal abstraction." (I might add that
- >>they done a pertty good job at that). However, this is nothing more
- >>than the definition of over 600 primitives-- My point will be come
- >>clearer as you read ahead.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >Unix. You stated that since it doesn't switch stacks, it is not
- >really multitasking. Well, I've got news for you: All apps
- >have their own stack that the scheduler switches them to before
- >dispatching them. They also have their own local heap, their own
- >data segment, etc.,
-
- >If I have misrepresented your views, sorry. I'd like to quote you,
- >but my fumble-fingeredness got the better of me. And if the
- >point I represented above was something I read somewhere else, and
- >attributed to you, sorry again.
-
- >Heath
-
- >--
- >On Saturday, April 18, 1992, this .sig became self-aware.
-
-
- Bollocks all, if Windows were to be an OS it'd be a bloody daft one.
- Ever hear of an OS you can quit and still have a functioning machine?!
- Windows IS a shell with a GUI,a large one though. The only reason
- Windows features the large amount of functionalism a lot of you
- take as proof for it to be an OS is because DOS is even less competent.
- Consider this, if DOS wasn't the farce it is but an advanced operating
- system like it should have been and Windows would be the GUI it is
- running on top of this DOS. This DOS would now feature functions for
- memory and resource management Windows would still have to offer them
- to its applications if only to pass them directly to DOS. Hence the
- current API is no proof at all of it being an OS. It is just another
- layer in a machines hierarchy. The fact that it must and can bypass
- DOS for functionality DOS doesn't provide is only proof of the
- incompetence of DOS.
-
- Well, this should prolong this thread for another few weeks :-)
-
- Cheers
- Erik
-
-
- --
- Erik van Linstee | linstee@duteca.et.tudelft.nl | I'll be back ...
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