Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: Mark Green
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 00:00

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In article <434cj2$k...@mayumi.iphil.net>
           je...@tridel.com.ph "J. Edward Sanchez" writes:

> syd...@skypoint.com (Scott Butler) wrote:
> 
> >Justin Hawkins <jhaw...@tardis.apana.org.au> wrote:
> >>Do you know what you're talking about? Buy a new computer. Format
> >>the hard drive totally. Install OS/2. It works. You can run DOS
> >>programs. All without an MS product in sight.
> 
> >>Get a clue.
> 
> >Think again. A lot of the DOS and Windows code in OS/2 is from
> >Microsoft.
> 
> But OS/2 is no longer an MS product. So... "all without an MS product
> in sight."
> 

  Having finally seen win95, I can say that a lot of the GUI 
look-and-feel in Win95 is from OS/2.  (esp. the notebook-style configuration 
dialogs)

Mg
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