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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:14:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pcvt/132 columns
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970310201236.6130B-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199703110007.RAA24037@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 
> As to your question, it's a non-sequitur... DOS supports .EXE files,
> but BIOS POST does not.  You also presume (incorrectly) that DOS is
> an OS.

Terry, I may not think very highly of DOS, even given the context in
which it was written, but it is an OS, at least I maintain it is.  Could
you defend that remark?

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