Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: a... Alexander O. Norris
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00

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In <3un3n1$h...@news.computek.net> Katharine Auriemma
<ka...@computek.net> writes: 
>
>Win. 95 is not a true OS. It still makes alot of calls to DOS. 
>I'm not sure if it's a new DOS or not but without it 95 wouldn't 
>run.
>
------ummmm, yes and no.  you don't have to have dos loaded.  a friend
installe a recent build on a clean HD, no dos installed.  however,
under close inspection, parts of dos, certain files like doskey, etc.,
were installed under /windows/command
 however, you really don't need dos 6.22 after you have installed
win95.

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