Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:34:13 03/06/01
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On March 06, 2001 at 14:50:53, James Swafford wrote:
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>>If it's not an OS, then Windows 95 is not an OS.
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>Well, we can discuss the merits (or lack of) of Win95 another time. :-)
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>You know as well as I do that Win3.1 is just an extension of the DOS
>environment, and that it runs on top of DOS. If that qualifies as
>OS, then, well, it's an OS. But a darn ugly one. :-)
Maybe we can agree on this: DOS is NOT an OS (its memory management is too
poor). DOS+Win3.1 is an OS.
Christophe
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