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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (20225)6/24/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: Bearded One  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
The fact that Windows 95 is able to emulate DOS does not answer the question of whether it in fact is DOS plus a GUI integrated together. My impression, which appears to be wrong from what I am reading here, was that the software that allows Windows 95 to run in "DOS mode" and run 16 bit programs was basically grafted onto a 32 bit operating system. I thought it was no more separate than, say, Windows
Explorer, regardless of how it walks or quacks.

The more I think about all this 'integration,' and based on my programming experience, I'm starting to wonder if there even exists a useful definition of "application," much less "operating system." Everything is so connected to everything else these days. And you can put a 50 megabyte program on your hard drive and essentially "remove it" by eliminating a 20 byte batch file that runs it. It may be more useful to think just in terms of what the user sees.
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