Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:23:49 -0400 From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in a Windows World Message-ID: <199508202323.TAA05087@mail.htp.com>
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>As dennis wrote: >> >> >> It's like the old UNIX guy who arrogantly says "DOS is not an >> >> Operating System, and neither is WINDOWS". > >> >Truth is truth. > >> A real operating system is one that provides a computer with usable >> services, which both DOS and WINDOS (as it should be called) do. > >They do not. What do you think why every ``better'' DOS program does >direct screen access, deals with hardware (COM port speed comes to >mind) registers directly, installs its own handler intercepting >keystrokes etc. pp. In other words, almost every `operating system' >service is preferably bypassed instead of being used, for the one >reason or the other. > >Very simple: the services DOS is providing are unusable. The only DOS >service that's actually being used is the file system. It's ugly, but >suffices to load a program from it, and handle some small data files. > However Windows does ADD those services, just as they were added in UNIX. Changing times require changes. db
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