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- From: pgunn01@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (Pat Gunn)
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 96 16:29:00 EDT
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- >>And to say Win95 runs on top of DOS. You don't know much about the
- >>system your insulting do you?
- >I think I'll put in my two cents here...
- >I used a copy of Windows 95 here at home for about 5 weeks all told,
- >running in parallel with my FAT-based OS/2 Warp setup on my DX4/100
- ....
- >However: while Windows 95 may not literally be running on top of DOS
- >(and this is a highly debatable point, BTW, since well-known authors
- >and even major publications like PC Week say it does), it still feels
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- My experiment:
- 1 IBM PC-DOS 7 Boot disk, with memory managers, etc
- 1 Win95 system
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- I loaded Win95 by typing "win" from the PC-DOS 7 command prompt (AUTOEXEC did
- have windows in the path) ... Sort of conclusive, eh?
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- Pat Gunn, of Team OS/2, Libertarian party, and the Internet.
- "And thus came the great god known as Emacs, and with him
- came Neko, the forgotten one"
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