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Article #3216Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
From: skk... Plastic Nuclear Ferret
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:00
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Justin Hawkins (jhaw...@tardis.apana.org.au) decided to write out: >pdeu...@metronet.com (Patrick Deupree) writes: >> >> Stephan Siano (ste...@embata.muk.uni-hannover.de) wrote: >> : In <416h0n$q...@sulla.cyberstore.ca>, Neutronium Dragon <alfred...@cyberstore.ca> writes: >> : Well, Win95 does need DOS, since it's still running under DOS. >> : (Although the DOS is hidden better than before) >> >> Yeah, DOS is at the core, just like it is in OS/2 and Windows NT. >Do you know what you're talking about? Buy a new computer. Format >the hard drive totally. Install OS/2. It works. You can run DOS >programs. All without an MS product in sight. >Get a clue. > - Justin >-- > Justin Hawkins -> jhaw...@tardis.apana.org.au > "Don't sweat it, it's only 1's and 0's" yep. just realize, that they use DOS code. windows uses (still) free, public domain X-windows code, and they have from the start. -- ****************************************************************************** * I'd like to be Superman, but you're standing on my cape. * ****************************************************************************** * Shane Knapp * skk...@cs.buffalo.edu * acs...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu * * Oh gee, and my homepage too: http://armstrong.cs.buffalo.edu/~skknapp * ******************************************************************************
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From: skk...@cs.buffalo.edu (Plastic Nuclear Ferret) Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie! Date: 1995/09/15 Message-ID: <43c20i$4rk@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> X-Deja-AN: 110187704 distribution: world references: <3v8usi$mci@tornews.torolab.ibm.com> <3vb70a$6j4@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> <3vdumb$kmm@seymour.sfu.ca> <cKJ9mqrPwVz7078yn@vestnett.no> <40vl1c$d8@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU> <410tr8$9be@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk> <416h0n$qfp@sulla.cyberstore.ca> <1995Aug25.081238.14344@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> <41m89c$2b@feenix.metronet.com> <jhawkins02450950803184419@tardis.apana.org.au> followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic organization: University at Buffalo newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic nntp-posting-user: skknapp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit