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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22167)	12/16/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Hi, I'm only in the groups a little bit nowadays, my work schedule has picked up. Anyway, the value of the integration of a service into an OS is directly proportional to how many other applications or services will want to use it. For example, a routine to draw a nice window on the screen with scrollbars and have it be moved around correctly and work with other windows is a useful piece of the OS. You don't want different applications with their own window managers up on the screen not knowing about each others windows, and thus not getting redrawn when you move one off of another one. Similarly, any connection to a fixed resource belongs in the OS since the OS can then manage application demands on that resource. Network drivers, anything that does anything to a hardware device (think about two applications using a printer at the same time and getting your documents interleaved). As far as IE 4.0 goes, the proper question is--- what conflicts or problems are solved by putting it into the OS? I can't think of any, myself.

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