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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (5835)	4/18/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: Chris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Rudedog RE:98/NT I was looking for the copy of Microsoft System Journal that detailed Win95 arch. and could not find it. I thought it was from first half of 95. Win95/98 do boot to a DOS-derived kernel, but I thought MS had claimed to have completly revamped to 32-bit. Later in the press, they found specific areas that were still old 16-bit code. My original point was that it feels like DOS but the internals have been reworked, so for all practical purposes now it a new 32-bit DOS with a new 32-bit file system(since win95b). It runs the old stuff, but the new stuff (32-bit native) is much faster. Yes it heritage is DOS but it is new. Like replacing/upgrading the engine and drive train of your car. Yes it is still your car, but with much more power under the hood. Like you said, totally different architecture with its VMS heritage that 'emulates' most DOS functionally except hardware specific interrupts, which is why your DOS based games won't run.