Con Kolivas gives up.

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Wed Aug 8 06:54:59 BST 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 14:36 -0700, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:

> Speaking of X, I remember back in the Windows 3.1 days how Microsoft was
> criticized for slapping a GUI on top of DOS (as opposed to the Mac's GUI
> being part of the whole OS).
> 
> X-Window has been pretty much been in the same boat (and still is).

The problem with Win/DOS was not that a GUI was put on top of an OS. The
problem was that DOS was not really an OS at all, just a glorified
bootloader.




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