Re: TIB: HAL
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Re: TIB: HAL
Windows (3.x) runs on top of DOS, but Win95 does not. It is a stand alone
system that happens to be packaged with DOS. If you don't believe me, talk
to Microsoft.
Grant Stockly wrote:
> I meant that win runs on top of dos like x to unix...
>
> >Actually, it isn't. A lot of things would be MUCH more difficult without
> >Windows.
> >I don't know how you use X for your Linux box, but I use X more than
> >anything else (Xterm prompts in particular). There are so many commands
> >that let you do so many things you end up thinking MS-DOS is a joke.
> >It is also noteworthy that MS-DOS was built over the core of X. X is so
> >much bigger than MS-DOS.
> >
> >--
> > Rene Kragh Pedersen
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
> >man: Why did you get a divorce?
> >man:: Too many arguments.
>
> ---
> Grant Stockly
> AppleCyber - http://www.alaska.net/~gussie
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Douglas S. Oliver
Department of Anthropology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
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