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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 10:56 AM EDT |
But remember: Microsoft Windows was built for those un-networked, single-user
computers.
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 11:04 AM EDT |
| Good point. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 02:52 PM EDT |
The definition of Middleware that this case is hinging upon has nothing to do
with networking. It is defined as an (primary) application that runs on top of
an OS that exposes its own APIs to other applications so that the other
applications could be made to run on any operating system that the primary
application runs on. The discussions of users "living in WordPerfect"
and never interfacing with the underlying OS attest to that.
I agree that if Novell had been able to deliver their wish list for WordPerfect
on Windows 95 at the time that Windows 95 shipped, they would have had a fair
chance at becomming the dominant Middleware platform in that sense, but it had
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 07:52 PM EDT |
This comment is way off base.
Let's go back to the original Windows, I.e. all versions not based on the NT
kernel. All of them up to Windows ME run on top of DOS. The 9X and
previous versions of Windows are middleware, as was DoubleDos, GEOS
(on the DOS PC), and a variety of other operating system extensions.
How about XTree, Stereo Shell, and Norton Commander?
From a technical point of view, Word Perfect for DOS could be considered
just another operating system extension (it handled printers better than
DOS did).
You don't need a network for Miidleware - just think of Windows 1.0!
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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