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- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 an "operating system"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov07.043530.12842@microsoft.com>
- Date: 07 Nov 92 04:35:30 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Nov05.115641.12981@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <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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- In article <1992Nov05.115641.12981@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl wrote:
- > jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > >A neat analogy, Fred, but wrong: what does an OS do that DOS doesn't?
- >
- > Provide protection from ill behaved applications for one. Furthermore
- > I would say concurrency should be included in the definition of
- > a modern OS.
- >
- > Erik
-
- Funny, I know people who have the opposite viewpoint. They Like DOS
- because it stays the heck out of their way.
- Then again, they are just embedded systems designers, and game designers,
- and the like.
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