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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows for the Blind (was Re: BOYCOTT APPLE)
Summary: the "new" generation...
Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit
Message-ID: <621@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 16:22:32 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <2112@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <819@bucket.UUCP> <117@atpal.UUCP>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <117@atpal.UUCP>, tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
> the point of the Windows/OS2 approach.  What characterizes the new generation
> of OS's is not their graphical nature per se, but the use of hardware
> independent device *drivers* to control all communication with the user.

Ah, yes...the "new" generation.  Like OS-9, which has supported dynamic linking
and dynamically loadable device drivers on the 6809 since about 1980, and on
the 68xxx since about 1984?

		James Jones

[While I *do* work for Microware, my opinions are purely my own.]