On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: > Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > No, Windows is not an interface... and it's a lot more than just a GUI, > > it's > > an operating system as well (as of Win95, WinNT). > > The box that you buy when you buy Windoze 95 contains an operating > system which is called Windows 95. That box contains MSDOS 7.0 and > Windows GUI. Most ppl refer to the GUI as the whole enchalada, thus a > GUI OS but that is not the case. MS just packaged the 2 together and > called them Windows 95 OS.
Indeed. > Just examine the startup sequence or go to MS's web site and get the > toys package that has a control panel addition which gives you several > options about the hidden functions, one of wich allows you to boot into > GUI or DOS prompt. Yes, and the functions are not really hidden, they're just not documented. But heck, what _is_ documented in Win95? The "trouble shooting" help doesn't get you far beyond "is the printer switched on?" and "check that the cable is plugged in". > Additionally if it was the OS there wouldn't be an option in the > preferences of a DOS program to "hide" windows from DOS programs nor the > need to "reboot into DOS" for other programs. And those are the options you don't have on aa WinNT system. WinNT is an OS. > > And that's right, you need to compare X+Window manager, not just X which > > was > > the issue. > > True. Because of the way Windoze is programmed. Otherwise you can > benchmark X without a window manager. But Windoze won't run without > it's window manager counterpart "Explorer" since there is no way to run > programs without it. Well, I have seen Win95 boxes where the explorer took very long to start up, probably due to network problems. I noticed that, before the explorer is started, Ctrl-Esc works like in Win3.x and gives you the task manager which lets you run any program (including exporer, which can be very convenient if you're having problems). Remco -- If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kick-boxing -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
