nemesis wrote:
> 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...

I do remember running win95 from DOS and exiting win95 back to day.

Essentially I believe win95, 98, and ME required DOS to run.


Windows NT was the product that what it's 'own' OS and didn't run on DOS.
Windows 2000 and XP are based on the NT code and therefore never needed DOS.



Tom

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