Re: No Microsoft Breakup

[Chris Rehm <javadisciple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, Alexei is exactly correct. Windows was simply a GUI task running
under DOS. Now, it is the name of the new operating system that is written to
replace DOS. But that doesn't make the GUI part of the OS. It still is a task
and could be kept seperate just like it is done with *nix or OS/2.

I remember when that was a fairly common description of Windows (2.0 I think)
"A Graphic menu system for DOS."

On Thursday 06 September 2001 03:27 pm, Jim Damato wrote:
> Isn't that like saying that airplanes were invented as a replacement for
> shoes?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexei Pytel [mailto:pytel@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:29 AM
> To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: No Microsoft Breakup
>
> >   Maybe it's like wanting to develop a different command prompt for DOS.
>
> I see a kind of irony here - Windows started as little more than "a
> different command prompt" (GUI-ized) for DOS.
>
>
>     Alexei Pytel

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