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- prompt (103077.1303@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
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- : Windows 3.11 IS an operating system, strictly technically speaking.
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- Yes, it fits many commonly accepted definitions for an "operating system",
- but it may fall short in others. It actually depends rather a lot on the
- working definition of "operating system" one is using, and in the past
- I've seen well-presented arguments on *both* sides of the issue.
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- IMhO, the precise nature of the environment isn't really important, and
- arguments of this sort are little more than an excercise in semantics.
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- : Don't ask me, ask some authorities (try write to byte or get into
- : BIX to check it out) I have no time to explain these trivial craps
- : here.
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- Some of us actually have some formal training in operating systems design
- <grin>, and we have some idea what we're talking about when debating the
- issue, but you're right that this is not the forum to do so.
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- A related question, tho: Is Executor an OS? ;-)
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- -Rich Steiner >>>---> rsteiner@skypoint.com >>>---> Bloomington, MN
- Written online (ugh!) using tin!
- The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
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