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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
- Message-ID: <714962865.3@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:51:14 mst
- Lines: 41
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- EVL>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.
-
- EVL>Well, this should prolong this thread for another few weeks :-)
-
- Yup...
-
- What you are arguing is nice in theory. The fact is DOS can't handle
- resource management for Windows apps. Thus Windows must do it. Since
- Windows must do it, it is providing operating system services. It
- does so by shutting DOS down, except for some file management.
- Thus, the postulation that Windows is 90% of an OS is essentially
- correct.
-
- It would be nice if DOS did indeed handle resource allocation for a
- multitasking environ. Sadly it does not. Thus, any GUI of Windows
- proportions must also provide OS services. This is not wishful
- thinking. This is the plain truth. DESQview does the same on a much
- smaller scale. DV might be called 30% of an OS.
-
- Nobody here is claiming Windows is a full fledged OS... it isn't since
- it doesn't meet all the requirements. It meets about 90% of them
- tho'...
-
- -Monroe
-
- * OLX 2.2 * "These test scores look better," Tom remarked.
-
- * Origin: Through the Looking Glass (42:100/14)
-