On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:24:03 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:


>Well, I can say with authority that Windows 3.11 was simply an 
>application program that runs under MS-DOS. If you write Windows, you go 
>back to DOS. When you start the PC, it boots DOS first, and then runs 
>Windows. And Windows 3.11 was litle more than a GUI with window movement 
>capabilities and icon management. [Why would you want several windows in 
>an OS that doesn't support multitasking?]
>

You probably don't remember what it was like to run DOS in the 80's.
Batch files ruled :) At work we had a menu application that ran the
apps that were commonly used or you could go into DOS and run them
from the command line.. 

I had an Amstrad PC-1512 which ran under DR DOS that you could run GEM
(Graphical Environment Manager).

>IIRC, Win95 and Win98 (and WinME?) are slightly thicker layers over the 
>top of MS-DOS, and it was WinNT that finally replaced DOS with a *real* 
>OS with actual *features* such as security, multitasking, hardware 
>abstraction, etc.

True.

>Ooo, ooo, remember TSRs? Remember spending hours editing C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT 
>and C:\CONFIG.SYS to try all permutations of driver loading order 
>looking for one that actually functioned?

Very true :)

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Regards
     Stephen

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