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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: <1992Nov05.115641.12981@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 11:56:41 GMT
- References: <1992Oct30.230102.5880@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Nov1.105030.7431@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Nov4.203036.5504@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <7714@lib.tmc.edu>
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- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov4.203036.5504@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >>DOS isn't an OS any more than Barbie is a prom date.
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- >A neat analogy, Fred, but wrong: what does an OS do that DOS doesn't?
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- Provide protection from ill behaved applications for one. Furthermore
- I would say concurrency should be included in the definition of
- a modern OS.
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- Erik
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