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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.173942.23442@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Jul 90 17:39:42 GMT
References: <40218215MES@MSU> <1915@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Sender: Aaron Wallace
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In article <1915@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Club Mac, Australia's Largest Mac Users Group) writes:
>In article <40218215MES@MSU> 18215MES@MSU.BITNET writes:
>>I read a rumor somewhere - Infoworld ? - that suggested that
>>Microsoft will merge DOS into Windows.....
>>It will no longer be a windowing environ running on top of DOS...
>>
>>There goes the 20% that Windows 3.0 couldn't do that the Mac could...
>>
>>It's probably a long way off, but lets start worring now!
>
>Merging DOS into Windoze is like wrapping a cheap fibreglass shell around a
>Yugo engine, and calling it a Ferrari...

Very bad/misleading analogy.  DOS does not drive/power Windows at all.  DOS
provides file access--period.  Everything else is done through Windows itself.
In fact, there is only one Windows internal function I know of that uses 
DOS--OpenFile.

>Jason Haines