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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!petesk
- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: Memory/hardware access models
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.094344.4943@microsoft.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 09:43:44 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Aug11.180931.19371@microsoft.com> <1992Aug13.171135.19714@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.171135.19714@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >
- >
- >Windows programs should operate in the following manner:
- >
- >USER APPLICATION
- >--+---------+---
- > | |
- > | V
- > | ---+---
- > | WINDOWS
- > | ---+---
- > | |
- > V V
- >--+---------+---
- > DOS
- >----+-----+-----
- > | |
- > | V
- > | --+---
- > | BIOS
- > | --+--
- > | |
- > V V
- >===============
- > HARDWARE
- >
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- I'm not going to edit your picture 'cause it's late here in redmond, but...
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- Are you including Windows device drivers in with the dos layer?
- What about the windows memory management stuff?
- What about the windows scheduling stuff?
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- When I get my DOS out of the box it came in, I don't have any of those
- things, so I assume they are not part of DOS. They don't call any
- DOS things to do their dirty work. So they must not be going through
- DOS. I'd expect that then, they are going around DOS, kinda making Windows
- look more like a real OS, using DOS as a device driver for filesystem stuff.
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- petesk@microsoft.com
- My Opinions...
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