Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!i2unix!inria!chorus!opera!mir From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests Message-ID: <7366@chorus.fr> Date: 26 Dec 90 13:56:15 GMT References: Sender: mir@chorus.fr Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France Lines: 13 In article , cos@twiki.PDX.COM (Charles Sauls) writes: %% Windows is not an OS in my opinion because it is not the first thing to %% load up on the computer. MS-DOS has IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM, and %% COMMAND.COM, but Windows does not have any files like that so you can use %% it as an operating system. In my opinion, it is a PROGRAM, not an OS. Wrong! :-) MS-DOS has IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM. IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM are for PC-DOS. MS-DOS is Windows' boot and disk bios. -- Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74 Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX