Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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2 total messages Started by bat... Boedy Ligo Mon, 21 Aug 1995 00:00

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Author: bat... Boedy Ligo
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 00:00

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I was about to kiss Anna Nicole Smith when coll...@kai.ee.cit.ac.nz broke 
in and say:
 co> From: coll...@kai.ee.cit.ac.nz (Peter Collins)
 co> Organization: Central Institute of Technology

 co> In article <4101c5$q...@news.iadfw.net> tdsh...@airmail.net (T.D.
 co> Shadow) writes: >...back to the original Question:
 >
 >Win95 a TRUE OS?    Yes.
 >A Good one?         Yes.
 >The best one?       No.
 >Better than OS/2?   No.
 >The new Standard?   Yes.
 >
 >True?               Yes.
 >Happy about it?     (Well, ask me next year...)

 co> It's just another windows sitting on top of dos.  When I was playing
 co> with  the beta, I wasn't impressed. An example... I ran the disk

Is it on the top of DOS?                No
Does it have DOS 16bit codes in it?     Yes

Why does it boot like DOS with almost the same system files as DOS?
For compatibilty reasons otherwise lots of  system programs won't work
properly 100%

Cheers, :-)
Dark Knight!
... I have a rock garden.  Last week three of them died.
~~~ Blue Wave/RA v2.20 [NR]

Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

#3161

Author: bi... William F. Mullin
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 00:00

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In article <3-632-552-...@cloud.apana.org.au> bat...@cloud.apana.org.au (Boedy Ligo) writes:
>
>Is it on the top of DOS?                No
>Does it have DOS 16bit codes in it?     Yes
>
  Once again, "Chicago" is DOS 7.0, bundled with Win4.0.  Windows *still*
requires DOS in order to run.

Waiting for Cairo... (since June 20, 1995)
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