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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:39:52 -0400
From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: About Micro$quash DOS 7 (hiding in Win98).
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Patrick Moran wrote:
<a great history of the development of the x86 architecture>

THANKS, this is great background.  Actually, I was "there" looking on during
most of these twists and turns, but only as a bemused onlooker - I had a "real"
machine to work on for a living (a VAX ;-))

Actually, my question was intended more as "why can't a (Other-Than-MS)
DOS-alike run Win98 as a "client?"  Are there secret services, like memory
management, that Win still doesn't do for itself?  If I had an open source
"mini-kernel" machine manager that ran in 32-bit protected, segmented mode then
what if it tries to start "WIN.COM?"

This whole S**T of tying the core management functions in with the graphics and
other service functions just gets me!

One day, I too will go Linux.  Of course, I'll probably need to license Wabi and
an industrial-strength XServer for the sake of my family.  And I hate paying for
software.
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate.  Public Key at:
<http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=superbiskit>
"Don't buy or use crappy software"
"By the grace of God I am a Christian man,
 by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French, tr.]