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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!spock!roland
- From: roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun)
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1: The ultimate DOS Shell
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.224356.3543@spock.UUCP>
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- Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
- References: <1992Nov9.174255.22889@spock.UUCP> <1992Nov10.065307.19403@microsoft.com> <1992Nov11.232259.10487@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:43:56 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Nov11.232259.10487@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.194931.26955@spock.UUCP> roland@spock.uucp wrote:
- >> In article <1992Nov10.065307.19403@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- >> >In article <1992Nov9.174255.22889@spock.UUCP> roland@spock.uucp wrote:
- >> >> I put is simply that Windows is the ultimate DOS Shell:
- >> >>
- >> >> DOS <> Windows
- >> >> as
- >> >> OS/2 <> PM (WPS)
- >> >>
- >> >> Can someone tell me I am really wrong in saying this?
- >> >>
- >> >> Roland.
- >> >>
- >> >
- >> >DOS+Win Memory Management + Win Scheduler + Win Device Drivers ...<> Win Shell
- >> >OS/2 <> PM (WPS)
- >> >
- >> >petesk@microsoft.com
- >>
- >> No, PM has memory management, scheduling, device drivers, etc... and more.
- >> So, the analogy is correct, or as you put it:
- >pardon me, but when I work on PM here, that's not how I saw it.
- >
- >>
- >> DOS+Win Memory Management + Win Scheduler + Win Device Drivers ...<> Win Shell
- >> OS/2+PM Memory Management + PM Scheduler + PM Device Drivers ...<> PM Shell
- >>
- >> Satisfied...:Windows is an OS, I think not.
- >I think so.
- Announcing the new ultimate OS: WPS... Faster than a cray on an 8088.
-
-
- --
- main () { // TRAVELLER, BEYOND LIES MID-WORLD...
-
- !!!"ARRAY EXCEEDS 64K, PLEASE MAKE DATA ELEMENT SMALLER"!!!
- !!"Out of Conventional memory... High memory... Upper memory
- Extended memory... Expanded memory..."!! !!"UNRECOVERABLE APPLICATION ERROR"!!
- Well it worked with DOS, and it doesn't with OS2... Must be
- the OS... The fact that the BIOS was HARDWIRED incorrectly couldn't
- have anything to do with it, Right? -----Roland of Gilead----- }
-