Re: net.views -- What is an "Open System"?

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From: Richard Krehbiel
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:39

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In article <jbone.716147104@splat> jbone@splat.dell.com (Jeff Bone) writes:
>PC *hardware* is open.

Agreed.

>DOS and Windows are not.

You might find that "DOS" could be delivered as MS-DOS (Microsoft) or
DR-DOS (Novell), or perhaps even as the DOS portion of OS/2 2.0 (IBM).
In fact, even though the Windows code in OS/2 2.0 is largely
Microsoft's, they are no longer in control of it within OS/2.  So I
might be so bold as to claim that DOS and Windows are available from
multiple vendors, and are therefore "open."
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...

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From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: net.views -- What is an "Open System"?
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