On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 10:20 PM, David Dudine wrote: > I guess this is a good time for me to ask something I was wondering > about > lately. I understand that Windows is piggybacked onto the DOS operating > system. Is that correct? >
Not any more. The original Windows was a shell on top of DOS. Starting with Windows 3, they reversed the relationship in that Windows still contained a lot of DOS code, but it was not just a DOS shell. Windows 95 and Windows 98 still have DOS modes available, but DOS is certainly no longer a big part of either one. Windows NT and all its derivatives (2000, XP) never had any DOS core. -- Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132 The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 22. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
