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  From: Michael Firkins <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:31:09 +1030

Re: An interesting article :-)

* Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@tellurian.com.au> [2003-01-17 12:26]:
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:46, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030116.html
> 
> Yes, but I didn't see any mention of the plan that Microsoft's had for a
> while of replacing the underlying DOS operating system with the NT one.
> This hasn't happened in the home so far, but it'd take less time for

Hmm. Am I missing something here? What is XP based on?

Michael

> that to work than for them to port the Top Half(tm) of their product to
> Linux.
> 
> NT does still have a few DOS-isms around the place too, but it's not
> sitting on top of the thing.
> 
> Matt

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