On 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
You can boot in Command Prompt mode only then type in win and you'll see
it start win95. 98's the same.
Only NT/2000/XP are OS's that don't live under DOS.
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