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Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: xr... Chris Nappi
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:00
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>-  Bollocks.  Win95 is DOS 7.0 + Win 4.0 .  Windows is just a pretty
>-shell
>-that sits on top of DOS -- nothing has changed.

>And PM on top of OS/2 is different? You see, nothing has changed!

No doubt... Its like all these OS/2 fanatics are saying:

"Oh my GOD WIndows 95 has a Disk Operating Sytem underneath it's GUI!!
How can that be any good??!"

Which of course is rediculous, a "D.O.S." is neccessary in any OS, and
just because the underlying D.O.S. happens to be called, and resemble
in some ways the copywritten DOS doesn't mean its not as good as
anything else..

Chris
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From: xr...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Nappi)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/07/26
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