From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 01:11:45 GMT
magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) wrote:
>Shane Bouslough (shane@cs.sunysb.edu) wrote:
>: It needs DOS to perform many resource management functions (esp. disk)
>: therefor it cannot be an os.
>:
>: -Shane
>
>Huh? By that logic, DOS needs BIOS to perform many resource control functions
>therefore it cannot be an OS.
[...]
>MS-Windows most certainly is an operating system whether it massages the
>DMA or uses BIOS or uses DOS or even directly reads in bytes off the
>controller in interrupt fashion. It merely uses DOS as part of a virtual
>machine.
>
>My $.02
That's nice.
Who cares?
Get this shit off these groups.
-Dave
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