Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: l... Leo Comitale
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:00

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>: 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.

>OS/2 is the disk operating system, i.e. the text-based command prompt; 
>the Presentation Manager is the GUI.  This is completely analogous to DOS
>7.0 as the disk operating system and Win95 as the GUI.  Sure, you can't
>have Win95 without DOS 7.0, but you can't have the OS/2 Presentation
>Manager without the underlying OS/2 disk operating system either.

Can you start Windows 95 in text mode and p-multitask any number of 
protected mode applications from "DOS 7.0"?  If so then your analogy is 
correct, otherwise it isn't.

Also I beleive the above poster is refering to MS/PC-DOS(tm), not "disk
operating system", which is also known as the CP subsystem on OS/2.

-- 
Leo Comitale
NLTC Toronto Labs
com...@vnet.ibm.com
(int)http://rs6nltc.torolab.ibm.com/~leo

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From: l...@torolab.ibm.com (Leo Comitale)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/07/27
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