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Windows 1.0 released this day in '85

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BobbyG66:
Where would we be today if the file name format was still 8.3?

Level42:
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.

patrickl:

--- 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.

--- End quote ---
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)?

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: patrickl on November 22, 2007, 08:51:46 am ---
--- 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.

--- End quote ---
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)?

--- End quote ---
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.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on November 22, 2007, 10:43:59 am ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on November 22, 2007, 08:51:46 am ---
--- 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.

--- End quote ---
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)?

--- End quote ---
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.

--- End quote ---
How does that contradict what I said?

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