Hi!

10-Июл-2006 21:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:

>>>> GH> Yes, but is it not the case that the startup files are different
>>> Startup files are same.
>> GH> Can you clarify what you mean here? How do you define "same"?
>>      Identical or newer versions.
GH> Are you claiming they're identical or not?
GH> If not, then they're not the
GH> same! "Newer" does not mean "Same"...

     This is _one program_! Or you wish to say, that FreeDOS 2035 isn't
FreeDOS, because kernel.sys binary-non-identical to FreeDOS 2034?

>>      DOS 6.22 is end of 1994 (1994/08/19), Win 3.11 is middle of 1994
>> (1994/05/23).
GH> I asked regarding WfW 3.11, not Win 3.11

     I just shorten name. Of course, this is WfW (aka W4WG).

GH> deal was the IFS, Net and file I/O changes. I don't think of WfW as a
GH> DOS shell because big chunks of it bypass DOS.

     First, not DOS, but BIOS. Second, not because this is inherent design,
but because this is possible on standard configurations (with compliant IDE
interfaces).

GH> To me, a DOS shell would
GH> be something that talks to the hardware via DOS,

     DOS doesn't talks to hardware, DOS talks with BIOS.


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