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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (20223)	6/24/1998 10:20:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

I suggest clicking on the start button, selecting shutdown, and selecting 'Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode' for some insight. Obviously, I've done that, and obviously, it gives me the DOS user interface. 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. In reviewing more carefully the actual language of the opinion, it says: Windows 95 is an operating system that integrates a DOS shell with a graphical user interface . . . I took the words "DOS shell" to mean DOS. But if, by "DOS shell," the court means the DOS user interface standing alone, then the factual error I thought I saw may not be there. The court also said: Windows 95 is integrated in the sense that the two functionalities -- DOS and graphical interface -- do not exist separately: the code that is required to produce one also produces the other. So, maybe my willingness to jump to conclusions after the first reading was too hasty.