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To: ed who wrote (19219)5/18/1998 12:58:00 AM
From: Bearded One   of 24154
 
One main problem with the term "operating system" is that it's very ill defined. An old Professor of mine once defined operating systems as "all the code you didn't write." For non-specialists, that would translate "all the code you didn't purchase separately as applications." So really, if we're just talking about "operating systems" as a product, Microsoft has a point-- it can be just about anything.

On the other hand, Ma Bell could have defined 'telephone service' as just about anything. They decided to define it as both long distance and local calls "integrated" in one unit. The DOJ disagreed and broke them up. So just having a loose definition on your side may not mean much.

This long-distance vs. local-call analogy is my personal favorite to compare to the current situation. We could consider local filesystems and local area networks to be the "local calls," while internet access is the 'long distance calls.' Similar interface? If you wan't. Integrated? You could make it so. Illegal tying? Well, it's easily break-upable. Probably more so than long-distance vs. local calls. After all, I use the internet in a very different way than I use my local file system. I don't read newspapers or join mailing lists from my file system, for example.
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