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- From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Subject: Re: net.views -- What is an "Open System"?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.233953.1769@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <BuCytz.1IG@world.std.com> <1992Sep10.145509.6695@decuac.dec.com> <jbone.716147104@splat>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:39:53 GMT
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- In article <jbone.716147104@splat> jbone@splat.dell.com (Jeff Bone) writes:
- >PC *hardware* is open.
-
- Agreed.
-
- >DOS and Windows are not.
-
- You might find that "DOS" could be delivered as MS-DOS (Microsoft) or
- DR-DOS (Novell), or perhaps even as the DOS portion of OS/2 2.0 (IBM).
- In fact, even though the Windows code in OS/2 2.0 is largely
- Microsoft's, they are no longer in control of it within OS/2. So I
- might be so bold as to claim that DOS and Windows are available from
- multiple vendors, and are therefore "open."
- --
- Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
- OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
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