Re: Old word processors

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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:34

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:53:17 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:
>
> 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:
>>
>>> 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.

I didn't say this. You need an OS or Linux, to run a GUI. Although that
changes for Windows with Windows NT/2000 and everything coming thereafter.

> 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.

Windows 9x still had MS-DOS under the hood. You could even tell Windows 9x 
to not boot the GUI and was left on MS-DOS.

Same for KDE/Gnome etc. on Linux. Well you can run KDE on Windows if you
wish. But KDE and Gnome (and others like XFCE) need an underlying
operating system.
-- 
Andreas

My random toughts and comments
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