Re: Andy Stone on OS's

Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@gambetta.ICS.uci.edu)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:17:13 -0700

> >[...] Yellow Box seems to defy simple attempts to categorize it. It's a
> >meta-operating system because it also runs on existing OS's like
> >Windows 95 and Windows NT.
>
> Looks like a load of meta-bullshit to me.
>
For several reasons. Ignoring their delusions for
a minute, what makes them think Microsoft won't change
the OS out from underneath them like they used to do
with Lotus and Windows/Dos? What about grey areas?
A frew simple defines will kill performance for
non-microsoft applications.

Greg