From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 27 07:03:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16893 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16834 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id KAA13404; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:01:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:01:56 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Tommy Hallgren cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Tommy Hallgren wrote: > 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? Where did Pedro say anything about the BIOS? Show me a Windows95 kernel. The kernel is DOS. Windows[x.x/9x] is a SHELL. Someone has even had Win95 running on OS/2's DOS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message