Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: bar... barryn on BIX
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 00:00

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rcha...@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Charland) writes:
>Interesting how you use the word shell when OS/2 uses a "Workplace Shell"?

That's right; OS/2 "hosts" the object-oriented Workplace Shell. OS/2
also hosts DOS and DOS-plus-Windows. And of course OS/2 runs native
OS/2 computer programs. Along the same lines, I suppose you could say
DOS "hosts" Windows 3.x, or that DOS 7 "hosts" Win9x.

Barry Nance
  author of "Using OS/2 Warp", "Introduction to Networking",
  "Client/Server LAN Programming", "Networking Windows for Workgroups",
  and "Connecting with LAN Server". BYTE Magazine Contributing Editor.

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Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/07/23
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