Re: Problems in "Modernizing" a //gs

[Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu>]

B.J. Major wrote:
> 
> Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
> > In article bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major) writes...
> >
> > >The PCs running either Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, two systems that are
> > >sitting right here in the office I work in, next to my Mac, DO NOT do
> > >true multitasking as well.  You may *think* they do, but they don't.
> >
> >  Windows 95
> > is completely independent of MS-DOS (and other problems associated
> > with it) and support preemptive multitasking.
> 
> Not that I've seen it hasn't.  And, Windows 95 also has DOS running
> underneath it as well.  Just because something has been made practically
> invisible does not mean it is not there.  Unless/until the architecture
> of the PC changes in the future, DOS will *always* be there, underneath
> everything.


Just a quick thought here.  From what I've been hearing, Microsoft plans
on merging Windows 95 into Windows NT in about 2 years or so, and then
there will only be NT, although it might be called something else, like
Windows 2000 or something.

Jeff Lemke