Re:Translation please II

[Ozzy Chacon <ozzyc@yahoo.com>]

---"Glenn T. Livezey" <glivezey@netserv.unmc.edu> wrote:
>
> On On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 13:07:03 -0500 (EST), 
> "Francisco U. Rodríguez Rodríguez" <fubaldo@dipusevilla.es> wrote
> >Subject: Re: definitions
> >¿Un sistma operativo se puede arrancar como un programa?. Windows
95 sí.
> In re: P.A. Petricone's 
> >> This is from the world's on-line folks at comp.os.research news
group,
> >> last update 1995.
> >>  I wonder if they will re-write it in 1998?
> >> -pap
> 
> And I requested a translation from the list.
> 
> I received a reply from John Bryan
> >Looks to me like the person is asking:
> >"Can an operating system be started like a program?"
> >And the answer was, "Windows 95, yes".
> 
> And another from Christopher Pall
> >Well I used the translation tool at alta-vista (I love alta-vista!)
and got this
> >back...
> >Sistma operative can be started like a program? Windows 95, yes.
> >But I don't know what it means exactly except maybe, Operating
system can be
> >started like a program, Windows95 can be. That's it though!
> 
> Both of which prompted me to assume that this was an important point
> in distinguishing Win95 from a true Operating System
> >(I replied
> >Thank you. And that is an interesting point (not previously
addressed in 
> >this forum to my knowledge) that adds to the assertion that Windoze
is most
> >definitely NOT an operating system (for those who still believed it
was a 
> >matter of semantics). I never bought or installed 95 (only
reinstalled prior 3.x 
> >versions supplied "free" by OEM computer vendors). I know Win3.x
could be
> >invoked from a DOS prompt commandline (and was most certainly a GUI
shell
> >at best). Does Win95 function the same way?
> >And if so, is this similar to a request to reboot the "system" or
is it more similar 
> >to the request to "run" the Win3.x shell program on top of DOS?
> 

Hmmm, with that logic, Netware too isn't a real operating system. 
When I worked with Netware a couple of years back, I would boot DOS
first and then invoke Netware from the DOS command-line.  When I
shutdown Netware I had the option of exiting back to DOS.

Therefore, be careful how you classify operating systems.

Ozzy Chacon
 

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