From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs Date: 2 Dec 1992 09:53:11 GMT
[NOTE: this is getting away from the topic of most of these groups.
Please set the followup somewhere else...I'm not sure where it should
be for this one]
cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>Windows is not an OS in it's own right, esp. in un-enhanced mode...
The last time this was debated in comp.os.windows.advocacy, quite a few
references to OS textbooks whose OS definitions would include
Windows were posted. What is your definition of an OS, and what
authority can you cite for that definition?
--Tim Smith