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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@iocane.com.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:07:37 +0930

Re: linux is not GNU/linux [was RedHat 7.1 reliability?]

Alan Kennington wrote:

> And the Atari ST "operating sytem" included all of
> the windows software too. Digital Research integrated
> the windows layer into the "OS" long before MS
> "innovated" in this area.

They were still separate layers, though.  Atari OS-9 used
to make calls to the (from memory) BIOS for disk I/O (and
possibly screen/keyboard I/O - it's pushing my memory).


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  Daryl Tester,  Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.

"You shouldn't mix meditation with management.  The mind gets too empty."
  -- Dilbert

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