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Originally Posted by NSL  Wow. I could've said that myself as well  . If you look at what Microsoft is still selling you, it doesn't take much to realize DOS is still the hidden OS under all Windows... so basically Bill is still selling DOS.... |
Nope. That was the first windows (a GUI for DOS). The roots of the more recent MS OSes is the MS-IBM OS2.
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in contrast OSs like FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Red Hat, all those Linux flavors, and now Apple's Mac OS X, all based in UNIX, you've got yourself the real OS for the 21st century.
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UNIX is even older than DOS.
Linux is a very tricky thing, as people confuse the kernel (the real Linux) with the OS (GNU or GNU-Linux) and/or the distribution (Ubuntu GNU-Linux).
And BTW GNU means:
GNU's
NOT
UNIX
tough it's a UNIX like OS.
For all its problems MS weren't full control freaks like IBM, Apple or stupid enough like the UNIX boys.