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In <3n0iv0$7...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, jlwo...@unity.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Lee Woodall) writes:
>: To handle the problem of DOS games with Windows '95, I have my regular
>: multi-boot config.sys and a C:\WIN.BAT file that checks the configuration
>: that was chosen at start-up.  If it's any configuration but the Windows
>: one, to drops me to DOS (Yes, Win '95 runs on TOP of DOS - still!!).  I 
>
>NO IT DOESN'T.  Its more like Win95 and DOS run parallel.
>DOS is just around more with Win95, but Win95 is the operating system you 
>are using, not DOS.
>

You are brainwashed.  It's a bit more complicated than Windows 95 running
straight on top of DOS, but yes, they are inextricably linked.  You couldn't
be running Windows 95 without DOS there somewhere (it's actually built
into the Windows 95 code).  Contrast this with OS/2, which is completely 
standalone.  You can run DOS programs without even having DOS on your 
system (of course, you won't be able to use any DOS commands, but you 
can run the programs), and of course you can run every OS/2 program as 
well.  

In fact, when running a single session for a game under Windows 95,
all the OS is doing is unloading every Windows 95 feature from memory
and leaving you with straight DOS.  Basically nothing more than an OS/2
dual boot, the difference being that OS/2 has to reboot the whole
machine in order to get vanilla DOS; Windows 95 just takes itself out of
memory.  That should tell you something about the OS you're really running
when using Windows 95.

//  Jeff Williams
//  NYU UGFTV/Cinema Studies
//  jmw...@is2.nyu.edu