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Article #6455

Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests

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From: Adam Mirowski
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 1990 13:56
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In article <H5yqu1w163w@twiki.PDX.COM>, cos@twiki.PDX.COM (Charles Sauls) writes:
%%  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.

Wrong! :-)  MS-DOS has IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM.
IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM are for PC-DOS.

MS-DOS is Windows' boot and disk bios.
-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
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From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests
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Date: 26 Dec 90 13:56:15 GMT
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