Mr. Mark Weaver --
Good sir --
No, Windows isn't written in VB. Windows is written in assembly language.
Additionally, Windows is a "DOS Shell", even '98. The only version of Windows which
is a true OS is NT, and that's only because it's the version of OS/2 which IBM was
working on when the M$/IBM divorce happened (early 90s?). That's why M$ called it
"NT" -- because for them it was, well and truly, "New Technology". (For that matter,
still is!) Remember: "ME" is just "NT" with a new name.
That M$ took OS/2 and ruined it so thoroughly is indicative of the culture of M$.
Remember: Gates' primary motivation is to eliminate any and all competition. Whether
the silly software really works is literally at the bottom of his agenda.
DOS works fine as a single-user, single-program platform. It got f*cked up when M$
tried to make it multi-tasking.
Talking about history, the only reason M$ got the IBM PC deal is because people at
CP/M wouldn't return IBM's phone calls. CP/M is the original pre-emptive
multi-tasking OS for the PC, btw.
--
I hope you and yours are prospering!
--Paddock -------------------
Registered Linux user 190974 ( 2000-Oct-05 ).
