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Lance Togar (ltogar@msn.com) wrote:

: Too bad you missed it but this has been discussed, at length, for the
: newbies in the group. The fact is: WIN95 DOES *NOT* run on top of
: MS-DOS. A superficial look at the WIN32 SDK is all that's required to
: prove this. To be clear, neither NT or WIN95 run on top of MS-DOS.

	I know Windows NT doesn't. But Windows 95 still *DOES*. Hold down 
F8 and it breaks into COMMAND.COM. It still executes AUTOEXEC.BAT and 
CONFIG.SYS on MS-DOS before passing to Win 95, if you don't believe, just 
press <ESC> while the Windows 95 is starting logo.

	You can even insert a line in AUTOEXEC.BAT to terminate before 
even going into Windows 95. Half of my friends and programmers in fact 
acknowledged it is a GUI above MS-DOS like Windows 3.11. WIN32 SDK does 
not prove nothing ... you look at the startup sequence, look at the file 
naming convention 8 dot 3. You *STILL* have to use 8 dot 3 even if your 
filename is longer then 12 characters, which is strictly MS-DOS at work.

	WinNT is *KWEL*, but Win 95 plain is a joke. 'pre-emptive' 
multitasking on Win 95 ? *rofl* It's a wonder why people do not move 
across to Windows NT ! Given a choice of OS on a PC I would put NT in 
favour of 95r2 *pout* (or even Amiga's Workbench is better !).