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Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be



In article <42o4l7$9qt@news-2.csn.net>,
   bazyar@hypermall.com (Jawaid Bazyar) wrote:
#Richard D. Wilson (wilsonr@gdls.com) wrote:
#
#: Uhh-humm... Windoze? Warp? Gimme a break!
#
#: Real programmers prefer real OS's (eg Linux / X). 
#: BTW, why is 'doze95 called 32 bit when it still has DOS crawling around in its
#: guts? Actually, forget I asked. I don't want to know...
#
#  That's because it doesn't still have "DOS crawling around in its guts".
#It can emulate DOS software much in the same way that Linux can. 
#And there's a "DOS Mode" available that's _only_ DOS. Everything
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
#in Win '95 is 32-bit; my SCSI drivers, video drivers, etc etc everything.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think you ought to check you facts out, either that or open your mouth
and insert your foot. There is more 16-bit code in the guts on Win 95 than
Microsoft likes to admit. Almost all of the USER and GDI system code is
16-bit. Most of the DOS and Win 3.1 emulation code is 16-bit. I would go so
far as to say most of the 16-bit code in Win 95 was grafted in from DOS and
Win 3.1 and them modified to run.

- Dave



David Draper
Software Consultant - Unix/DOS/Windows
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