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Article #6445Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests
From: Charles Sauls
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 1990 18:13
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 1990 18:13
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> 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. Windows is not an OS in my opinion because it is not the first thing to load up on the computer. MS-DOS has IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM, and COMMAND.COM, but Windows does not have any files like that so you can use it as an operating system. In my opinion, it is a PROGRAM, not an OS.
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