From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 26 23:24:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25379 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se (root@piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se [129.16.234.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25371 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se) Received: from grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se (md6tommy@grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se [129.16.234.21]) by piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06991; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:24:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (md6tommy@localhost) by grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA20498; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:24:07 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se: md6tommy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:24:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tommy Hallgren To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" cc: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing In-Reply-To: <3543ADEB.794BDF32@asme.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Windows 95 is not an OS because it still runs on "top" of DOS, M$ > doesn't admit, but I would not consider it a technicality. Ridiculous! Windows 95 uses only the BIOS/DOS when native code cannot be used. Even FreeBSD uses the BIOS for certain things, are you saying that FreeBSD isn't an OS because of that? Tommy Hallgren(md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se) - the source of all good beers... Go to http://www.freebsd.org and get real BSD Unix. Today! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message