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In article <35F3AD13.F67EBE68@pacbell.net>,
  Ken <tylereng@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Quentin Christensen wrote:
>
> > hmmm, I don't think is any more silly than m$ claiming win95 is an
> > OS...  (if you want to argue that one, DOS 7 is the OS, win95 sits on
> > top the way win3.1 did, only it's more annoying to go between dos and
> > windows than with 3.1)  basically windows is a program launcher, with a
> > (pretty?) gui interface.  Can you tell me what win95 does then apart
> > from launch programs?
> >

Shuts then down for you ;).
Allows you to run multiple DOS boxes ?

> > Quentin
>
> About the only advantage I can think of that Win 95 offers programmers
> and end users alike, besides the pretty program lucnching interface, is it's
> use of the .dll shared libraries. This gives programmers the luxury of not
> having to write extra code into their routines and saves on disk space
> since other programs can call the same .dll file ...

The company I work for have been loading DLL's under DOS using PharLap for
some years now, so that's not it.

>                                              ... It's a modular programming
> system that offers a lot of attraction and ease of use. There may be other
> bennefits I may not be aware of, an not being a programmer, but you
> might just want to cut it a little slack until you can offer a better
> alternative.
>
> Ken
>
>


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