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Article #3221Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
From: tdsh... T.D. Shadow
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:00
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>Ok, it's single-tasking like DOS, it has a 640K limit like dos, it >runs real mode dos programs like dos, the networking support isn't there >like dos, it doesn't have a gui like dos, it has a C:\> prompt like >dos, it has all the dos function calls..... BUT it isn't dos. Geee, >it looks kind of like it. so tell me, WHAT IS DIFFERENT? It is not 100% DOS compatible (for one thing). Actually to call it DOS is an insult to DOS. It is a crappy "Windows" half-ass imitation of DOS. Furthur proving the lack of imagination from Microsoft. When OS/2 load a Virtual Machine, and you get a command line, is that DOS? I don't think so. It is OS/2's VERSION of what DOS should be. Windows *tries* to do this (you figure that if *anyone* could copy DOS, it should be the guys at MS!!) but not very well. In the list of "incompatible" software, DOS games are a lot of them. They can't even copy themselves right. If is really *was* DOS under there, it would at leat be a SLIGHT improvement over that crap that you are trying to convence the entire net is DOS. Windows 3.1 was trying to pretend that is wasn't DOS, Windows 95 is pretending that it is. You OS/2 guys should be dancing and jumping for joy over that. And all the Windows freaks can't say a thing in denial.
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