From: Chris G. Demetriou (cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 12/01/92 

From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs
Date: 2 Dec 1992 03:02:47 GMT

In article <id._NGV.SPF@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>Windows is a completely different operating system, that happens to use
>MS-DOS to boot and do file I/O. I'm talking about DOS 5.

<sigh> last time i checked, booting and ways to do file I/O were two
ways used to distinguish between various operating systems.

Windows is not an OS in it's own right, esp. in un-enhanced mode...

Chris