On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote: .. > En Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:02:53AM +0800, Jerome Tan escribio: > #_ Yup. It's badly designed because Win9x is not an OS at all! Think > #_ about Win9x as an application running under DOS. > > more like, running on top of DOS.
Now THAT is incorrect. Much as I violently disagree with PLUG-newbie-yet-overly-opinionated Andy Sy, this is the sort of comment that I can't agree with. You make a technical comment that's wrong. Win98 does NOT run on top of DOS, unless you're in safe mode. DOS is just used as a bootloader, but once you're running the 32-bit kernel you don't see Windows making INT21 calls do you? DOS INT21 is mostly for I/O and all of that is replaced with a protected-mode interface (maybe not so protected, it thunks to 16-bit code every now and then). But to claim that Win9x/Me "runs on top of DOS" is REALLY overly simplifying it. It's like saying Linux running on a UMSDOS partition, booted by LOADLIN, is "running on top of DOS." -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
