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Article #3447Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Paul Christenson
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:43
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:43
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Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote: : Can you use a Unix system without a shell? Try to remove all the shells : from your Unix system and see what you get :-) Can you use DOS without its shell? (Try deleting COMMAND.COM and see what happens.) Can you use a Mac without its shell? (I believe it's Finder.) The point is, the shell is a necessary part of the OS. It also is what people look at, and identify with an OS. There is no reason why someone can't do something like make an X desktop look just like the Mac desktop. (A less extreme example is making the OS/2 desktop look just like a Win3 desktop.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!moose.erie.net!pce From: pce@moose.erie.net (Paul Christenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.inte Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 26 Mar 1996 00:43:52 GMT Organization: ErieNet Message-ID: <4j7ek8$vst@news.erie.net> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.82 <nevin-1302961823100001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4gis6m$f1l@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <danpop.825041941@rscernix> <jragosta-2302960903020001@ppp-1011.dca.net> <danpop.825099855@rscernix> <4ic6i6$mnk@info.estec.esa.nl> <danpop.826924583@rscernix> <nevin-1903960356150001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <root.827272596@rscernix> NNTP-Posting-Host: moose.erie.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]