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- From: ashaw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (andrew.shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.175440.14415@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 17:54:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cbfsb.1992Aug28.175440.14415
- References: <1992Aug28.165518.9103@cco.caltech.edu>
- Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
- Organization: AT&T
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- From article <1992Aug28.165518.9103@cco.caltech.edu>, by heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt):
- > tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name) writes:
- >
- >>Simple windows reactions could easily shoot it
- >>down as an operating system, as Erike van Linstee
- >>(linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl) put one example, "Ever hear of an OS
- >>you can quit and still have a functioning machine?!"
- > Yes, it is called "Windows." Then again, ever hear of a non-OS
- > that runs the processor in a special mode, loads programs in a unique
- > format, virtualizes hardware, and serializes input, along with
- > managing memory, cpu time, and I/O access to peripherals? Nope, me
- > neither.
- >
- Aha! Now I too can enter the tongue-pulling (love that expression).
- What about VPIX? This UNIX application virtualizes the hardware,
- does memory management, etc in order to emulate an 8086 that DOS,
- and even Windows, can run on. Surely this is not 90% of an OS?
-
- Andrew Shaw
- AT&T Bell Labs
-