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Re: executor-digest V2 #121
>>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
My experiment:
1 IBM PC-DOS 7 Boot disk, with memory managers, etc
1 Win95 system
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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