Boanne Lorraine wrote:
>
> Hello Or,
>
> }- As far as I understood, CP/M cloned the general UNIX
> }- interface. (Do notice how similiar is the general idea
> }- with both UNIX/Linux's and DOS's CLI is.
> }- Besides the drives in DOS and the flexibility of UNIX,
> }- they got almost the same principle working)
>
> Yes, I did notice this a long time ago, when I first got InterNet
> access back in 1995 and began working from a Unix prompt (shell
> account). I thought then that DOS and Unix must be somehow
> related...
>
> }- Windows is just a GUI shell program written for DOS.
>
> This I have known for a long time.
>
> But I have a question. At PC Lube & Tune
> (http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/default.htm) the author says:
> With Windows3.x Windows was running under DOS - with Windows9x
> DOS is running under Windows. What exactly does this mean, do
> you know?
It means the author is wrong. There is no real difference between
W3 and W9x. Ok 9x by default starts after executing autoexec.bat.
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