From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 10:36:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA09743 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:36:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA09730 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:36:04 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04537; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:35:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA13919 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:35:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA00909 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:33:34 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508201733.TAA00909@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD in a Windows World To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:33:33 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508201613.MAA01700@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Aug 20, 95 12:13:09 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1009 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)