Well, win95 isn't very much dos, but I will admid the same dos core is
underneath all the gui memory useing stuff. I didn't know about the pkzip
thing, but I know laplink 95 will not run under 98.
I found a rumor you might be intrested in:
Did you here about microsofts encription program? It turns out it is
programed to be easy to break, for someone who has a universal decripter.
Microsoft got off, because there was no way to prove it was not just a bug.
IE sends back information to microsoft? I knew it can be made to do that by
microsoft, but I dont think it does it every time.
----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*
> somebody said:
> "Windows 3.0 thru 3.11 are not opperating systems. They are just shells,
> running on top of dos. Windows 95 is an opperating system. It contains a
> completly new filesystem(fat32 and fat16 with changes to support long
> filenames) and a new io.sys. windows 98 is really windows 95 with a few
> cosmetic changes."
>
> nooooooo.....
> don't make me go balistic.
> win95 is not an OS. win95 still ran on DOS, M$ just changed the name of
many of the DOS files so no one would know it. this was on of the things
some of the computer magazines pointed out when win95 came out (along with
the fact that IE took an inventory of the software on your computer & sent
that information to M$ when you logged on the internet). of course, M$
denied this at first, but eventually admitted it was true. it may have a
new file system, but it's not an OS - they just did a slightly better job of
hiding DOS.
>
> i think there were actually more changes made in win98, under the hood.
one case in point. PKZIP, the command line version, will run fine in a DOS
box under win95, under win98 however it will just crash. PKWare had to come
up with a new program to run PKZIP from a command line in win98.
>
> that's my opinion....
> and you all know what opinions are like
> *haha*
>
> adrian
>
>
>
>
> Adrian Smith
> 'de telepone dude
> Telecom Dept.
> x 7042
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