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To: Judd who wrote (483)	12/16/1997 2:12:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1600

...you used to have to buy a TCP/IP stack separately, but now its in the OS. I can almost see that because the Network card is the hardware and this is just the standard way to interface to it. No it isn't. BTW I don't consider File manager, editors, paint programs and all that extra stuff to be the operating system. They are "free" utilities. They are even installed by default under the accessories folder. Bingo! So why do you consider the browser to be anything other than an accessory? It is NO DIFFERENT than the file manager. When MS started including File Manager as part of its OS people like Norton and Lotus complained because it made Norton Utilities and Lotus Magellan less attractive. This is the SAME THING!