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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/13
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In article <87vh4xwy8d.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>,
  Florian Weimer <fw@s.netic.de> wrote:

> On the other hand, NT includes quite a few backwards-compatibility
> features (DOS, WoW, OS/2, POSIX).
>

NT's "DOS" window never struck me as anything more than a command shell
that uses MS-DOS syntax for commands. And POSIX and OS/2 just
seemed to be tack-ons, not something that inflitrated the OS's
design in any way. I believe support for both has already been "phased
out".

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