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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 an "operating system"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov05.114926.12785@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 11:49:26 GMT
- References: <1992Oct29.194450.9856@a.cs.okstate.edu> <1cs9o8INNqhi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Oct30.230102.5880@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Nov1.105030.7431@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Nov4.203036.5504@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >In <1992Nov1.105030.7431@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
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- >>In article <1992Oct30.230102.5880@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >>>
- >>> > Q. Is Microsoft Windows an Operating System?
- >>> >
- >>> > A. MircoSoft Employee's say yes, and there really isn't much
- >>> > that anyone can do to stop them from using such a misnomer
- >>> > except by not using Windoze !!!
- >>>
- >>> Gee, I don't work for Microsoft, use OS/2, and I say that Windows 3.1
- >>> in Enhanced Mode is close enough to being an operating system that
- >>> it's mere quibbling to complain that it isn't.
- >>>
- >>> So where does that leave you?
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- >>Well, Fred, now that you ask......It leaves *me* wondering why MS sells its
- >>"OS" in two completely separate packages......
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- >A reasonable question. One that should probably also be asked of a
- >number of UNIX vendors.
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- >>
- >>Every other operating system I can think of comes in one bundle. Only MS would
- >>make you buy two "operating systems" in order to run their "OS".
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- >Never bought anything from SCO, I see.
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- Doesn't SCO let you buy the base operating system as one piece
- and then let you extend it with networking, wordprocessing,
- software develtopment and such?
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