Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: szsc... Charles Schaffer
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <3v621h$n...@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
Chris Nappi <xr...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>>-  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!
>
>No doubt... Its like all these OS/2 fanatics are saying:
>
>"Oh my GOD WIndows 95 has a Disk Operating Sytem underneath it's GUI!!
>How can that be any good??!"
>
>Which of course is rediculous, a "D.O.S." is neccessary in any OS, and
>just because the underlying D.O.S. happens to be called, and resemble
>in some ways the copywritten DOS doesn't mean its not as good as
>anything else..
>
>Chris
>

Actually Dos is not necessary for os/2 I can install os/2 without dos
(note: os/2 command line is not the same as dos). I can boot to os/2.
Have you ever tried installing win95 without dos on your computer already.
You can't but you can with os2.

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From: szsc...@dale.ucdavis.edu (Charles Schaffer)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/07/27
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