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In article <4033@dah.sub.org> ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes:

| kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) writes:
| 
| >PCs have survived rather well along with the rest of the world. In
| >fact, the latest stats and projections (Sept 24, 1990 issue of New
| >York Times) show operating system market share as:
| 
| >Year	DOS	UNIX	Windows	OS/2
| >1987	88.2	2.6	 2.3	 0.3
| >1989	75.0	2.3	14.5	 1.7
| >1994	43.2	7.6	28.7	13.5
| 
| 
| Is the New York Times trying to outdo PC Magazine in the propagation 
| of mis-information?  Windows is not an operating system.  It is a 
| proprietary windowing environment which runs *under* DOS.  

Well Ed, I beg to differ. You are correct in that Windows is a
proprietary windowing system, but I don't agree with the statement
that Windows runs under DOS. Windows actually extends DOS.

And Windows provides a very large number of OS services such as
non-preemptive multi-tasking and inter-task communications. It
therefore qualifies, in my opinion, as an operating system.

I will agree, of course, that it is pretty kludgy and that OS/2 and
UNIX are examples of real OS's as compared to Windows, but I don't
think its fair to crap all over Windows just because it happens to
have DOS as its heritage.
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