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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!petesk
- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 an "operating system"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.231255.10279@microsoft.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:12:55 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Nov10.125204.11194@nenufar.saclay.cea.fr> <1992Nov02.105810.18446@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1992Nov1.034252.21723@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Oct29.102113.27239@microsoft.com> <1992Oct29.194450.9856@a.cs.okstate.edu> <strobl.720403410@gmd.de> <1992Nov01.234835.26685@microsoft.com> <1992Nov02.221621.22870@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Nov10.125204.11194@nenufar.saclay.cea.fr> daniel@ledaserma.cea.fr wrote:
- > In article <1992Nov02.221621.22870@microsoft.com>, petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- > |> BTW: you command.com replaces/enhances part of an operating system, and thus
- > |> becomes part of that operating system.
- >
- > No... a command shell is not a part of the OS... it is
- > an application (even if you won't go far without it..)
- > (see for example Tannenbaum book about OS, which -i think- gives
- > a good idea of what is an OS..)
- > As an example, the C-Shell and the Bourne shell belongs to unix
- > environnement, but not to unix itself (ie whatever shell you run,
- > your OS is unix and nothing else)
- > A command shell is a program that gives the user an access to the OS.
- > An OS is a program that gives other programms an access to the machine
- > ressources (at least this is what i believe...)
- >
- Command shell gives the machine access to the user command stream resource
- ;)
-
- I can see you come from the UN*X world, though. Back in CP/M days,
- and even in DOS, the command shell was considered part of the OS,
- if you will. On mainframes, it was not. So I guess this issue depends
- on whether you are a PC biggot, or a mainframe biggot.
-
- petesk@microsoft.com
- My Opinions...
-