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Article #3136Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
From: dona... Donald Collins
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 00:00
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In <DCHB9...@cunews.carleton.ca> ko...@chat.carleton.ca (Ka On Lee) writes: > >Donald Collins (dona...@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >> >: 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. > >> Oh really. DOS is a multitasking, protected mode OS that calls your >> program? Learn something about what you about to criticize before you >> criticize it. > >What he said is true. If you use "Shut down to MS-DOS" in the Win95 >shut-down dialog, or press F8 , or do some other tricks like set GUI=0 >in certain config file, you will be boot to plain DOS 7.0. 100% pure >DOS, no multitask. Now if type "WIN" or "EXIT" at the DOS prompt, it >load the GUI part. Learn something about what you about to advocate >before you advocate it. > > | _ | Ka On Lee > |_(0)_| > ------==<[\-(.)-/]>==------ ko...@chat.carleton.ca > ^ \#/o o\#/ ^ al...@freenet.carleton.ca > ' ` Well, I came on at the end of this discussion. I know this is not an excuse. I thought he was saying, if you pretended that there was no GUI with Windows, you have something that is no better than DOS, which is clearly untrue. I apoligize for interrupting you discussion.
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From: dona...@ix.netcom.com (Donald Collins) Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie! Date: 1995/07/29 Message-ID: <3vdodf$b4l@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 107137715 distribution: world references: <3v8usi$mci@tornews.torolab.ibm.com> <2qHGwAuLCZMJ084yn@source.asset.com> <3vb4a8$fla@news.iadfw.net> <3vb70a$6j4@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> <3vba2j$nhe@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> <3vcfi9$rei@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <DCHB99.3n6@cunews.carleton.ca> organization: Netcom newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit