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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:41

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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.
-- 
Andreas

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