Yeah, except for one thing: under that dogrel you couldn't swap either the
underlying OS (DOS - they purposely caused DRDOS to crash) or the GUI.
With Unix, you can run X under FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, or
the commercial Sys V's. And you can replace the desktop/wm with whatever
you like: Gnome, KDE, CDE, fvwm, twm, etc.
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ed Kummel wrote:
> "That's the nice thing about having an OS seperate
> from the GUI..."
> Hmmm, Doesn't that sound like the original Windows?
> I find it funny that the OS that seperated the GUI
> from the OS (windows) is moving to an all-in-one, and
> the os that used to be all-in-one (the Mac) is now
> moving to seperate the OS and the GUI (OSX, Yellow
> box, Blue box..one box...two box...<appologies to
> Seus>)
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
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