Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!software.mitel.com!kim!kim From: kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests Message-ID: Date: 24 Dec 90 14:04:25 GMT References: <4033@dah.sub.org> Sender: kim@Software.Mitel.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: Public Switching, MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada Lines: 33 In-reply-to: ed@dah.sub.org's message of 21 Dec 90 18:16:56 GMT In article <4033@dah.sub.org> ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes: | kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) writes: | | >PCs have survived rather well along with the rest of the world. In | >fact, the latest stats and projections (Sept 24, 1990 issue of New | >York Times) show operating system market share as: | | >Year DOS UNIX Windows OS/2 | >1987 88.2 2.6 2.3 0.3 | >1989 75.0 2.3 14.5 1.7 | >1994 43.2 7.6 28.7 13.5 | | | Is the New York Times trying to outdo PC Magazine in the propagation | of mis-information? Windows is not an operating system. It is a | proprietary windowing environment which runs *under* DOS. Well Ed, I beg to differ. You are correct in that Windows is a proprietary windowing system, but I don't agree with the statement that Windows runs under DOS. Windows actually extends DOS. And Windows provides a very large number of OS services such as non-preemptive multi-tasking and inter-task communications. It therefore qualifies, in my opinion, as an operating system. I will agree, of course, that it is pretty kludgy and that OS/2 and UNIX are examples of real OS's as compared to Windows, but I don't think its fair to crap all over Windows just because it happens to have DOS as its heritage. -- Kim Letkeman kim@software.mitel.com uunet!mitel!spock!kim