On 1/28/2021 9:22 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Bonaventura de'Vidovich composed on 2021-01-28 16:29 (UTC+0100):
**Win95 is an operative system (no comment). **There is no DOS.
Win95 is a desktop environment that lives on top of a MS-DOS 7.0 foundation.
Win98SE is a desktop environment that lives on top of a MS-DOS 7.1 foundation.
WinME " " " " " " "
NO. It doesn't. People really should stop spewing that nonsense. 🙁
"MS-DOS 7.x" doesn't exist for all but the initial boot process. As soon
as the Windows 9x boot logo comes up, there is no longer any "MS-DOS
foundation" active. Read any Windows 9x undocumented/inside/etc book and
those will explain this in detail. If you open a DOS prompt from within
Windows 9x, it is not "DOS underneath" that is running, but Windows'
NTVDM process. The initial DOS kernel is no longer active. With Windows
ME, Microsoft all but eliminated this boot process and is more directly
loading and running the 32bit Windows kernel.
Ralf
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