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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 an "operating system"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.083101.18909@sequent.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 08:31:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Nov7.083101.18909
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- In article <1992Nov07.043530.12842@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- DING! Thanks for playing Pete...
-
- Not true. One of the paper mills I visit on occasion for process
- control work trashed their plans to move off the DOS environment
- into WIndows entirely. They sited as the first reason, the expense
- of configuring and updating 400 PC's to run Windows in a reasonable
- fashion, and secondly, they did and internal study which showed
- their productivity dropped by over 10% on the Windows machines
- versus the plain DOS ones. One other side effect was that Outside
- contract labor charged an average 50 to 135% more for programming
- services when it came to custom window applications, citing the
- additional complexity of the environment to produce the final
- product.
-
- Now, this is not a blanket mandate that Windows is bad, or OS/2 is
- that much better. It is meant to point out the fact, that embedded
- systems designers and game designers are not the sole realm of DOS;
- else why would IBM be so meticulous about including it in OS/2? For
- that matter why is Microsoft including it at all in NT, if it's
- nothing more that a boot sector virus, as some clever poster so
- aptly put it ?
-
- JMHO...
-
-
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