Forgive the non-Linux question - but: At least windows 9x appears to start an initial command.com dos shell and read config.sys etc. before it continues to load windows.
Ordinarily, windows runs a second copy of command.com to run a dos program or give you a does window. Is there some way to run a dos program or create a dos command line, using only the original copy of command.com in memory, thus saving some memory? I guess I am asking for win 9x, why must one temporarily switch from the windows to a dos shell by running a dos shell within the windows shell? Conceptually, perhaps the answer is that one would need to `temporarily' unload all the windows stuff in memory, or swap it to disk, in order to go back a step to the original command.com that was loaded first.
