Gerry Hickman wrote: > Hi Ray, > > >>> with it's own bootsector and startup files? You've then got the HIMEM, >>> EMM386 and IFSHLP to worry about. >>> > > >> No, it is just a shell. >> > > What do you mean by "just a shell"? > > >> I don't use it any more but I still have the >> batch file to run it. In one of my older machines it was run from >> autoexec.bat. The line is still there but remed. >> > > You mean you booted into MS-DOS 6.22 and then started WfW from within > DOS 6.22? If so, I have to ask why?? > >
That's actually how Windows 1.x-3.x worked ... technically, Win95/98 also worked a similar way, but Microsoft kind of changed things to make it not so obvious. For Windows 3.11 (WFW) you boot into DOS, then you run "win" to start Windows. Think of Windows as being just like Norton File Commander, or MS-DOS DOSSHELL. While Windows had its own device drivers and executable file format, Win 1.x-3.0 still used MS-DOS for all basic operations. Windows just sat on top of DOS and managed the multitasking. Windows 3.11 (WFW) stopped using DOS for file i/o, but still made pretty heavy use of DOS for other operating system functions. Windows wasn't so much an operating system as an "extension" that leveraged DOS to do most of the "behind the scenes" work. That's what Ray means with "just a shell". -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
