POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Wow... how quaint : Re: Wow... how quaint Server Time
7 Sep 2024 17:15:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wow... how quaint  
From: Phil Cook
Date: 10 Jun 2008 07:59:32
Message: <op.uci7lbvcc3xi7v@news.povray.org>
And lo on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:04:15 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Well, I can say with authority that Windows 3.11 was simply an
>> application program that runs under MS-DOS.
>
>   Don't you mean "over"? If you say "under" you are effectively saying
> that the underlying system was Windows 3.11, and you ran DOS on top of
> it. Clearly you meant the other way around: The underlying system was  
> DOS, and Windows ran on top of it.

Read it in the context of 'Windows 3.11 was under the control of DOS'

-- 
Phil Cook

--
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