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Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: pdeu... Patrick Deupree
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 00:00
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Stephan Siano (ste...@embata.muk.uni-hannover.de) wrote:
: In <416h0n$q...@sulla.cyberstore.ca>, Neutronium Dragon <alfred...@cyberstore.ca> writes:
: Well, Win95 does need DOS, since it's still running under DOS.
: (Although the DOS is hidden better than before)

Well, I'm not surely that's wholly true.  I think the "Dos" window is 
more of an xterm type program now, since you can run windows programs 
from the command prompt now.

Yeah, DOS is at the core, just like it is in OS/2 and Windows NT.
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From: pdeu...@metronet.com (Patrick Deupree)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/08/26
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