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- From: discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar)
- Subject: Re: OS or not, it's all in the label.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.061028.27311@nosc.mil>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- References: <1992Nov7.074248.15536@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:10:28 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Nov7.074248.15536@news.Hawaii.Edu> lkan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Linus Kan) writes:
- >If Microsoft had started to sell DOS+Windows as one package and
- >labeled the new bundle as XYZ, then there wouldn't be any debate
- >if Windows 3.1 is an OS or not--package XYZ wouldn't differentiate
- >between the two. Get the point? It's analogous to separating
- >the OS/2 structure layer into several layers and arguing that
- >one is an OS and the other is not.
- >
- >:) lkan
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- MS does do this. You have not been keeping up with your reading :) MS
- now has available a product called "Modular Windows"--a one megabyte
- ROM designed for consumer products such as Tandy's Video Information
- System.
-
- So, now Windows is an OS? Heck, one doesn't even need a hard disk now
- to boot Windows... much less DOS.
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