Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: ber... Markos Berndt
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:00

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In <3v5s23$7...@grok.provo.novell.com> ja...@itsnet.com (Jack Hudler)
writes: 
>
>bi...@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (William F. Mullin) wrote:
>
>>In article <3upcjf$c...@stud.Direct.CA> saro...@Direct.CA (Shaya
Roudafshan) writes:
>->mcr...@ix.netcom.com (Psychoboy) wrote:
>->
>->Is Microsoft Windows 95 a true, real operating system?
>->Yes.  Microsoft Windows 95 is a true, real operating system.
>-  
>-  Bollocks.  Win95 is DOS 7.0 + Win 4.0 .  Windows is just a pretty
>-shell
>-that sits on top of DOS -- nothing has changed.
>
>And PM on top of OS/2 is different? You see, nothing has changed!
>
>
Windows95 is a operating system, it is not running ontop of DOS, DOS is
incorperated into Win95 for compatibility reasons.  DOS 7 is a non
graphical Win95 it will be sold as a stand alone product for DOS
diehards.  
-- 
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From: ber...@ix.netcom.com (Markos Berndt)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/07/26
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