> From: "Geo." 
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:403b0257$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I would say yes.
>> 
>> Five years ago I would have said probably, 10 years ago possibly etc.
>> 
>> However by the time you get back to babbages machine then no probably not.
> This is why I've stopped trying to define something as an OS issue. It
> really doesn't matter as today the product is not simply an OS, products
> include much more and tend to be integrated to the point where it no longer
> matters, one compromises the other.
> Geo.

So any 3'rd party product loaded into memory is thus part of the operating system?

I'd agree wrt the "computing system" per se.

Adam

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