Re: c/c++: a new adventure

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:05:34 -0700 (PDT) 
Wing Wong <buyer1342@saladlove.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Ben Kohlen wrote:

> Still, just because it doesn't live up to current standards hardly
> negates DOS as an operating system.

Technically and practically DOS does not fulfill the definition of
an Operating System.  DOS is simply a non-re-entrant program loader
-- which is a far different thing, and a far lesser thing than an
OS.

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