On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:07:31 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>   Especially page 5 seems interesting.
>
> Considering it's named "modern operating systems", and I wouldn't  
> exactly count MS-DOS as a "modern operating system," I'm not surprised  
> :-)

Note that in the actual book Tanenbaum explicitly calls MS-DOS an  
"operating system" and in fact dedicates an entire chapter to it. "Modern"  
in this context basically means the 1980s.



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FE

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