Haha....that is similar to something I heard someone say a while ago: "WordPerfect 5.1 does a lot of the things DOS can do." He was referring to renaming files, taking directories, etc. and he was saying that you could just about do away with DOS. He was speaking along the lines of "DOS would be a simple program to create."

There is a big difference between an interface to display a directory structure and the actual low-level code that is responsible for communicating with the hardware to retrieve the information. Netscape actually could provide some of the same functionality as the GUI by using the functions of the operating system. Netscape is dependent on the operating system portion of Windows.

Joe

>>You guys following up the 'THE NERVE OF MICROSOFT' thread would find some interesting reading on the testimony given by the CEO of Netscape to the senate hearings where he claims that Microsoft went after them with all they had because: -" their browser posed a competitive threat to Microsoft's operating system monopoly because it could provide some of the same functionality as the operating system "- !!!
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>>I find that exaggerated to say the least. I think those guys are just playing the game to the best interests of their respective companies.
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>Don't they all!?