Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: av... Aaron Van Stralen
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:00

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bo...@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck) wrote:

>In article <41m89c$2...@feenix.metronet.com>, pdeu...@metronet.com (Patrick Deupree) writes:

>|> Yeah, DOS is at the core, just like it is in OS/2 and Windows NT.

>Except that you're wrong about that.  Neither one loads any DOS 
>code when not running DOS applications.  DOS is essentially run
>as just another type of app under NT and OS/2.

You're correct about the os/2 part (although I can't comfirm the NT
part since I have never used or seen it). Os/2 uses it's own core, the
OS/2 prompt.

Avan

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From: av...@ix.netcom.com (Aaron Van Stralen)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/08/29
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