Tom Austin wrote:
> IIRC Win95 ran on MS-DOS 7.  It actually booted to DOS and then loaded 
> windows.  The reboot to DOS only set up the environment customized to 
> the application you were trying to run.
> 
> The same went for Win98 & ME.  Just that DOS become less and less 
> important.  But I remember that they all ran on top of DOS.

AFAIK, Windows 3.1 was the last purely windows system for DOS.  From W95 
forward, Windows was already a full OS, though not 32 bits.  But yes, I 
think DOS booted and then booted Win.  DOS became as irrelevant as the 
old programs for it began being rewritten for true 32 bit OS.  It then 
run in emulated mode inside Windows...

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