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From: halldors@styx.rutgers.edu (Magnus M Halldorsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Op Environment vs Op System (was: NeXT not revolutionary enough?)
Message-ID: <Nov.4.15.37.40.1988.10844@styx.rutgers.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 88 20:37:42 GMT
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In article <300@ur-cc.UUCP> scco@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Sean Colbath) writes:

> Agreed.  In this MS-DOS age of computing, people tend to believe that what
> they type to is the actual OS.  In the case of MS-DOS, it is.

I don't agree. You can take out the command.com and put something else
instead, say unix-like shell, and you're still running ms-dos.

Magnus