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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows for the Blind (was Re: BOYCOTT APPLE)
Message-ID: <32181@auc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 18:59:59 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <2112@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <819@bucket.UUCP> <117@atpal.UUCP> <621@mcrware.UUCP>
Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Organization: Atlanta University Center
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit

In article <621@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes:
>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?

And don't forget the OS on the Commodore Amiga, which has had dynamically
loadable device drivers since 1985, and other features that are touted to
the unknowing world as being "new" on microcomputers (i.e., Multitasking,
a large physical address space, message passing, etc.).

No flames, please.  Just trying to make a point (actually, trying to add to
the point made by Mr. Jones).

>
>		James Jones
>
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		Rodney Ricks

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