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Article #3516Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:00
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In <3unbrs$7...@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, ak...@cornell.edu (Allen Kim) writes: > >In article <3umd7a$m...@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, mcr...@ix.netcom.com >says... >> >>After reading and seeing so much on Windows 95...and planning to >>definitely purchase it, I have only one, critical question. >> >>Is Microsoft Windows 95 a true, real operating system? > >[details deleted for brevity] > >A very good book to read is Andrew Schulman's _Unauthorized Windows 95_. >He analyses Windows 95 in an objective manner (albeit it is one of their >earlier betas) and talks about the whole issue of how close to a "pure >32-bit operating system" Windows 95 really is. One neat thing about the >author is that he shows no love for Microsoft, keeping his comments about >the company objective and slightly cynical. It is neither pure 32bit nor an OS. If the author of this book defines WfW 3.11 as an OS he doesn't know what an OS is. A shell isn't an OS because it is more used than the OS it is working in. In Win95 some DOS-restrictions you had in WfW3.11 are not as bad but still exist. cu, Armin
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From: e912...@stud1.tuwien.ac.at Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie! Date: 1995/07/27 Message-ID: <3v7ieq$m0n@news.tuwien.ac.at> X-Deja-AN: 107023603 references: <3umd7a$m57@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> <3unbrs$7ge@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> organization: SLIP FOR OS/2 Warp reply-to: e912...@stud1.tuwien.ac.at newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit