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- From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
- Message-ID: <weinkam.714245613@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Jul27.111210.2143@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Aug03.023244.19013@microsoft.com> <1992Aug03.091642.163545@zeus.calpoly.edu> <Bt51yD.Fv3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <weinkam.714245081@sfu.ca>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:33:33 GMT
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- weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam) writes:
-
- >>>Granted, Windows does go around MS-DOS to do many things (as it very well
- >>>should), but it is still dependent upon DOS for disk-I/O and for EMS/XMS
- >>>memory management.
-
- >>Yes for disk I/O, no for XMS.
-
- >You mean that to run windows I do not need to load himem.sys. If this is
- >true then why would the windows setup program add himem.sys to my config.sys
- >file since windows does not need it to run.
-
- I should add that windows grabs the available memory from dos, and then
- does its own memory management. Windows does manage the memory, but
- still uses dos at the start to grab the memory.
-