Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: t... Tim Smith
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00

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Psychoboy <mcr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>set the variables.  Now, a lot of people think Windows 3.xx is an 
>operating system.  Well, it isn't...for most people, MS-DOS is.  Windows 

Uh, you seem to have overlooked the fact that Windows 3.1 runs MS-DOS
as a ring 3 task under control of the virtual machine manager, which
runs at ring 0.  VMM is the operating system, not MS-DOS.  (Yes, this
bears a remarkable similarity to a microkernel).

--Tim Smith

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From: t...@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/07/22
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