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Windows 1.0 released this day in '85
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: patrickl on November 22, 2007, 11:51:04 am ---
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--- Quote from: Level42 on November 22, 2007, 08:17:17 am ---That wasn't an Operating System. It was a Shell. A graphical one, but still a Shell.
Some people think it is even today. And I can't blaim them.
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Doesn't that hold for any modern "OS". Isn't there always a combination of a "true OS part" and a graphical UI (Operating Environment)?
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No. One of the most obvious differences is that when you started your computer back then, it started into DOS. You then had to tell Windows to open and run on top of DOS. It's kind of like how you don't consider Gnome or KDE as operating systems, they are both shells for linux.
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How does that contradict what I said?
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Yes, in windows there is the kernel that runs the program (the "true OS part") and the GUI that interacts between you and the kernel. The difference is that in modern windows the kernel is built into windows, while in early versions of windows the kernel was DOS.
patrickl:
So it's still a kernel + a gui. Just like it is with Linux and any other 'nix version (including the Mac version)
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: patrickl on November 22, 2007, 12:03:40 pm ---So it's still a kernel + a gui. Just like it is with Linux and any other 'nix version (including the Mac version)
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Correct, which is why recent versions of Windows are considered an OS and the early versions are considered a shell (they were only a gui).
patrickl:
I was responding to
--- Quote ---Some people think it is even today. And I can't blaim them.
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AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: patrickl on November 22, 2007, 12:33:52 pm ---I was responding to
--- Quote ---Some people think it is even today. And I can't blaim them.
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???
All I was did was support what he said. Since recent versions of windows are OS's, most people tend to think the original versions were also OS's.
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