Con Kolivas gives up.

Scott (angrykeyboarder) geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Mon Aug 13 08:59:43 BST 2007


Mario Vukelic spake thusly:
> 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.

A bootloader for what?


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