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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
Message-ID: <68@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 04:50:36 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.103543.22097@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun10.135715.23727@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1131@stewart.UUCP> <1991Jun15.032812.15122@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1137@stewart.UUCP>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

"Let's not forget that Windows is still in development.  Planned improvements
include pre-emptive multitasking, multithreaded applications, complete
memory protection, and less use of the BIOS and DOS.  It seems that
Microsoft is slowly turning Windows into a standalone OS after all."

Actually, that's not true. Future Windows versions, using DOS 5.0 as its
core, will be smaller because it takes more and more advantage of new DOS
features (EMS, etc) without code replication. Windows will always require
DOS.