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Whats the best OS of microsuck?
Siplus:
are the newer versions of windows actually considered operating systems? i know that 3.1, 95, 98, and ME all run from dos, thus making the early windows just a gui shell. what about now? i haven't really seen any direct connection with dos, so would windows [2k/xp] be considered it's own stand alone os?
Fett101:
OS:
Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to make use of it.
It's certainly not Dos and Dos alone that could and did run 95,98, and Me.
Kupotek:
I think the premise is as follows:
Bill Gates buys DOS from a fellow programmer for $50,000
Uses it and copied code from Apple against good faith, and pirated from Xerox, as the foundation for IBM's PC, makes millions.
Windows 3.1, 95. 98, Me are all founded on DOS.
Windows XP uses a NT kernel instead of the kermel32 and no longer uses the DOS foundation, but a NT kernel over an NTFS handler.
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by Emiko:
To correct Stryker, Microsoft did not create DOS, the disk operating system, they bought it from a fellow programmer for $50,000, and made million off of it.
Microsft did not create DOS.
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I know. And it was a very smart move. but the question was "what is the best of os microsuck[microsoft]?" DOS is of microsoft, as they have purchased all rights to it. I'm not giving them credit at all, but it is theirs.
cahult:
quote:Originally posted by fett101:
OS:
Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to make use of it.
It's certainly not Dos and Dos alone that could and did run 95,98, and Me.
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Did it run you? What is running you now? :D ;)
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