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To: Bearded One who wrote (20199)	6/24/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Respond to of 24154

Netscape's take on the Consent Decree decision: biz.yahoo.com

To: Bearded One who wrote (20199)	6/24/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 24154

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."

To: Bearded One who wrote (20199)	6/25/1998 1:02:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 24154

Hi Bearded One, >>It seems that Microsoft claimed that Windows 95 and DOS were integrated during the consent decree negotiations. However, Caldera has been able to show that one can easily substitute Caldera's version of DOS ("DR. DOS", then owned by Novell) for the version of DOS which comes with Windows 95. Thus, they argue, Windows 95 and DOS were never integrated and Microsoft lied so as to destroy the market for Dr. DOS. << That's interesting. I guess the "DOS 7 under win95" wasn't that different. Weren't io.sys and msdos.sys put into io.sys, then msdos.sys used as a text file containing system parameters? Did DR-DOS do the same sort of thing at that time or what? I suppose I should go check the Caldera website... FWIW Andy