Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: mcar... Michael Carmack
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:00

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T.D. Shadow (tdsh...@airmail.net) wrote:
: >        1.  Win 3.x less the GUI equals Dos, plain and simple.
: True.
: >        2.  Win 95  less the GUI equals Dos, plain and simple.
: Not quite. Win 95 less the GUI equals Win 95's SAM command line mode.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "SAM" command line mode?

[snip snip snip]
: ...but to call it DOS is just plain wrong. 

Tell that to the OS then...if you ask it for it's version, it calls itself
MS-DOS 7.0.  Heh heh, I guess it's wrong!  One more bug to report!  ;-)




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From: mcar...@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Michael Carmack)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/07/28
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