RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

I can't believe you actually believe your statement "Windows was GUI based 
and had little to do with DOS from day 1."

Windows was nothing more than a presentation layer over the top of DOS! 
The original Windows was not an operating system, no mater what Microsoft 
may have wanted you to believe.

Even as late as Windows 95 (and possibly much later) there was a great 
deal of the underlying code in windows that was still the original DOS 
code!

Thank you,
Ronald L. Zimmerman
I.T. Applications Manager
Swiss Valley Farms, Co.      http://www.swissvalley.com
"The Good for You Company"
Email: Ron-Zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/28/2006 11:20:54 AM:

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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jones, John (US) [mailto:John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 11:48 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence
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> 
> >Minor nit: The Windows GUI originated as a graphical shell on top of a
> >command-line driven OS.  Whether you want to say it originated with DOS
> >or NT doesn't matter.
> 
> that might have been TopView, which was an IBM product.  Windows was
> GUI based and had little to do with DOS from day 1. I know the win32
> APIs of windows 3.1 were DLL based. Not sure what earlier versions 
> of windows looked like to the programmer, but I doubt the method of 
> using software interupts to call into DOS was ever used in Windows.
> 
> MSFT gets hit for creating Windows as a copy of the Mac. I am 
> reading a terrific book on Bill Gates and MSFT [1] and it says MSFT 
> people were deeply involved from day1 in the development of the MAC 
> user interface. Push button controls were a MSFT invention for example.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> [1] http://www.amazon.
> 
com/gp/product/0671880748/sr=1-2/qid=1146241079/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-1271083-1171034?%
> 5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books