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To: Justin Banks who wrote (16202)1/18/1998 9:03:00 PM
From: damniseedemons  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
An operating system provides the ability to boot the computer, perform peripheral i/o, perform memory management, provide various forms of protocol support, and execute user programs. This last part includes support for relocatable binaries and shared libraries.

So what you're saying is that Windows95 (with the GUI, utilities, etc.) is--and has always been--much much more than just an OS, right?

I think so too, which is one of the reasons why I side with Microsoft in the IE integration/bundling case. Seems to me that the only reason the DOJ has gotten on Microsoft about IE is because Netscape is a very high-profile company that has made a lot of noise about Microsoft's [anti]competitive behavior. Fine, but where was the DOJ when quieter companies (like Symantec, for example) got crushed because Microsoft assimilated yet another technology into Windows??? And what happens if Netscape wins...does it set a precedent for Symantec and countless other companies to sue Microsoft for integrating technologies which they would have liked to sell? So then will "Windows2001" be an OS, in that it's a barebones OS that the consumer has to buy--and then they have to spend extra buying all the "applications" that used to ship with Windows95?
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