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Article #621349Re: Old word processors
From: J. Clarke
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 02:53
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 02:53
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:41:08 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 02:12:36 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >> On 2018-03-21 22:13, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:21 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: >>>> >>>>> 1987 I had the Amstrad PC1512 (2 off 5" floppies" ) which came with the >>>>> choice of PCDOS or GEM operating systems >>>> >>>> I don't think GEM was an OS. It was move of a graphical shell. >>> >>> It was. But neither were Windows desktops before Windows 2000/NT. Windows >>> 9x/ME were just a graphical shell running on MS-DOS. No need to blame GEM >>> here. >> >> No, even windows 3 was more than a graphical shell. Call it incomplete, >> faulty, whatever. But certainly more than a graphical shell. It replaced >> many if not most of the bios and dos calls with its own code, for instance. > >Okay. But deprive it of MS-DOS and it won't work. Same today with the >Gnome or KDE (or any other) desktop environment for Linux. If there is no >Linux (or other OS) working below it can't work on its own. Deprive Advanced Netware of MS-DOS and it won't boot. Doesn't mean it uses MS-DOS for anything but a boot loader. The Windows 9x series became decreasingly DOS-dependent as the versions increased--going through DOS was the fallback when the 32-bit drivers didn't work.
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