Sun, 17 Nov 2002, b e n w e l l s|headwerkx wrote:
>
>> Ah, but here's the rub... Windows never really became an operating system
>> until Windows 95. Versions 1 and 2 were simple and mostly useless Desktop
>> File Managers with few applications. Version 3 was an operating system
>> extension with many more apps, but it still needed MS-DOS.
>>
>
> Nope. 95 is still DOS based - at least for booting. If you look at the
> startups, it loads drivers through config.sys, then launches command.com
> which reads in autoexec.bat, then when that's all loaded, it runs win.exe
Technically true, but by the time of Win95 DOS was virtually dead anyway -
Windows was the platform standard, and thus was becoming an OS in it's own
right. Before then lots of applications still used DOS; you did real work in
DOS, Windows was for all the pretty junk :-)
The ironic thing is look in the Windows folder of a Win98 system and you'll
still find winfile.exe - yep, Windows 3.1's file manager. Progress is a
wonderful thing.
Ben.
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