Or Botton wrote:
> Boanne Lorraine wrote:
> > 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?
>
> If you will ask Microsoft, Windows 95&98 is the operation system,
> while DOS is now a program loaded by Windows when you run "command.com"
> from Explorer, or choose the DOS shortcut from the start menu.
>
> This is, ofcourse, not true. Windows is just loading automaticly..
> after DOS boot up. So Windows is STILL a dos-based application.
> The "DOS Windows" are just a more sophisticated way of doing
> an "Exit to DOS shell".
>
> Windows 95 can detect if its loading on top of MS-DOS 7, or another
> DOS such as DR-DOS. So if you boot DR-DOS for example, instead
> of MS-DOS, Windows 95 will refuse to run. However, as Caldera allready
> prooved in the Caldera VS Microsoft trial, a simple TSR designed
> to make Windows believe that DR-DOS was MS-DOS, caused Windows 95
> to load on top of DR-DOS with no trouble.
>
> This leads me to believe that there is a good chance that while
> Windows 95 is on top of another DOS, DR-DOS in this example,
> the "DOS Windows" that will open will also be of DR-DOS. Which is
> prooving that these are just DOS Command Prompt shells, which prooves
> that Windows is being ran by DOS, and its not DOS who is being ran by
> Windows.
>
> Most newspapers tend to believe what Microsoft tells them.
> I guess this was one.
>
> Or Botton
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