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Joshua Cyr (jm...@christa.unh.edu) wrote:

: I was told (by a good source) that even when you reboot to DOS, there is 
: still the windows Kernel in the background.  Essentially, Windows 95 is an 
: operating system with something that looks like our old Dos... but it 
: isn't our old DOS.  By the way, I have been using Win 95 for a few months 
: now, and have been able to run everything just fine.  I am using (now get 
: this)

: 486SX25, with 8MB Ram, sigh... it runs just as fast as windows runs, but 
: the graphic routines are much much faster.  I play Herritic in a Win 95 
: Dos window, with no slowdown, or problems at all.  Everything is so easy 
: to configure, I can't help but to love it.  A big improvement for game 
: fans.  I haven't used OS/2, so I cant make a comparison though.

To see is to believe, add the 'C:\' to the front of your PATH in the 
autoexec.bat and drop a file called 'WIN.BAT' into C:\ and make the file 
contain:

echo No Windows for You!!

(Only one line).

Then tool around to your heart's content in DOS.  Or (simpler) choose
'Shutdown' and choose 'Restart computer in DOS mode?'.  Now watch for the
restart, you won't see it.  What you will see is Windows exiting and
running the REST of the autoexec.bat to load any extra device drivers it
needs under DOS. 

Here is what happens:

1. Cold boot, BIOS check
2. Boot DOS
3. DOS loads Windows
4. Windows uses its own device drivers if available, if not, you have to 
preload them in the config.sys or autoexec.bat so they load when DOS loads.
4A. Restart in DOS mode, run the DOS version of the device drivers that 
Windows was using.

To illustrate, I have a PAS 16 with a SCSI Teac CD50 CDROM.  To use it 
with Win'95, I don't have to load TSLCDR.SYS or MSCDEX.EXE, Windows has 
native device drivers (which mean they are likely 32-bit).  To use it 
under DOS, I have to load the drivers just like I would in MSDOS 6.2.

My girlfriend has an old Sony-Bus single speed CDROM and a PAS 16 (SCSI 
not used).  To use it with Win'95, I had to load the Sony driver and 
MSCDEX.EXE to get them to be used under Win'95.  Great thing is that 
using the DOS support, you still have Windows support, just like Win 3.1.

The moral is, when you're not running Win'95, you're running Win'95 DOS 
and DOS is still DOS...  

--

    James Lummel - jlu...@caprica.com

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