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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 an "operating system"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.134421.16398@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 13:44:21 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov8.134421.16398
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- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) 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 !!!
- >
-
- I don't want to sound like I'm defending Microsoft (someday I'm going to
- post why I think Dan Quayle with a Cobol compiler could have written
- better memory management code than the excrement that found its way
- into Windows 3.1 (if you want to deduce from this that I spent a
- long time working around a Microsoft bug, go ahead :-))), but according
- to the definition of "operating system" from most major operating
- systems textbooks, it is not a misnomer to call Windows 3.1 an
- operating system.
-
- --Tim Smith
-