>>>I was under the impression the Windows 95 interface could not be separated from DOS and that it was not possible to run just the DOS portion without the interface, or to run some other version of DOS under Windows 95.
I think the easier it is to separate them, the more that helps Microsoft. Remember that, in interpreting the Consent Decree, the court took it as a given that Windows 95 was the model of what is an "integrated product." <<<<
I suggest clicking on the start button, selecting shutdown, and selecting 'Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode' for some insight. FWIW, in this mode you can run old dos games and you must use old dos drivers, many of which are older than Win95.
Dan notes things have changed, DR-DOS used to work under windows, as did memory managers other than their own (often better) but lately they have been able to turn off that capability AFAIK.
If it walks like a DOS, and it quacks like a DOS...
On the other hand, win 3 really depended on DOS for system access. Once win95 has launched, though, it seems to use 32 bit processor and memory features directly.
I tend to think of DOS and Win95 as almost totally foreign systems that can launch and partially wrapper each other, at least in appearance, this capability relies more on the multimodal capabilities and backwards compatibility of Intel processors than anything else.
I don't have any idea which side these presumptions, if they turned out to be facts, would help.
Cheers,
Chaz |
