Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: scott goehring
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:28

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In article <41g6diINN9tv@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>,
Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

>I remember that in my OS class, someone mentioned DOS interrupt routines,
>and the prof said "we only talk about operating systems in this class".

my OS prof had a short list of things he said an OS had to be to be an
OS.  he then showed how DOS failed to qualify on most of them.  in his
opinion, DOS is a file system.

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 23 Aug 1995 22:28:32 GMT
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