[QCLUG] buying laptop from dell

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:41:53PM -0500, Mike Burns wrote:
> Or better yet, when XP first came out and I had this guy from M$ try to
> convince me that XP did not sit on top of DOS.  He went so far as to tell me
> that the cmd window that you can get on XP was an emulator that sits on top
> of XP.  Well, I convinced him that if it was indeed an "emulator" that that
> XP didn't sit on top of DOS, then we could just rename a couple of obvious
> DOS files and XP would still boot.  I didn't stick around long enough to see
> if he had to reinstall or just rescue mode from the CD-ROM, but the look on
> his face was priceless when the computer gave him a black screen with the
> white letters saying "Operating system not found."  Naturally I had to throw
> in there the old, "well, I guess I was right and XP does sit on top of DOS."

Cute story, but no, XP does not sit on top of DOS...

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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