On 19/04/2011 5:35 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
> In >, dsi1@usenet-
> news.net says...
>>
>> On 4/18/2011 2:27 AM, notbob wrote:
>>> On 2011-04-18, > wrote:
>>>
>>>> pretty good. Finally, no more Microsoft and it's DOS-legacy OS. OTOH,
>>>> Google may be running the world. :-)
>>>
>>> Look again.
>>>
>>> WinPhone7 jes came out on 3 of 5 new smart phones and Nokia defected
>>> to WP7. Besides, Windows hasn't been DOS based in 11 yrs. If it was,
>>> M$ wouldn't be the pig it is today.. As for Google running the World,
>>> only if you let it.
>>>
>>> nb
>>
>> I'll have to check out the Windows Phone 7. My guess is that it's
>> similar to the HTC HD2 with Windows 6.5 OS - beautiful to look at but
>> aggravating to use. My daughter didn't like it - she's the expert. I
>> tried it but rather use my Samsung Behold II with it's simpler interface
>> even though it has a less integrated look. In the end, it got passed
>> down to my son who seems to like it fine.
>>
>> Nokia used to be a player but is in the little leagues these days. HTC
>> is pretty much dominating the smartphone market currently and without
>> their support, WinPhone7 would be would be dead in the water.
>>
>> Microsoft has been telling us that stuff for years but I have no reason
>> to believe that Windows ever left DOS behind. You might say that I
>> mistrust MS.
>
> Well, DOS never ran on the Alpha but NT did. DOS never ran on the
> PowerPC, but NT did. In fact NT was developed on processors that were
> incapable of running DOS and then ported to the x86.

You've reminded me that it was a DEC Alpha that we had as an office
server some time back. That was the one running NT 3.5. Don't know if it
ever was upgraded to NT 4.
>
> If you want to believe that NT is derived from DOS go right ahead, but
> you will be wrong.
>
Agreed, There were two different families or streams of Windows at
Microsoft back in the days. One was the DOS based version and the other
was the Enterprise based stuff which used NT 3.5, NT 4, Win2k, etc. When
they merged the two streams into one, then DOS was no more.

Krypsis