En Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:29:43PM +0800, Orlando Andico escribio: #_ #_ Now THAT is incorrect. #_ #_ Much as I violently disagree with PLUG-newbie-yet-overly-opinionated #_ Andy Sy, this is the sort of comment that I can't agree with. #_ #_ You make a technical comment that's wrong. #_ #_ Win98 does NOT run on top of DOS, unless you're in safe mode. DOS is #_ just used as a bootloader, but once you're running the 32-bit kernel #_ you don't see Windows making INT21 calls do you? DOS INT21 is mostly #_ for I/O and all of that is replaced with a protected-mode interface #_ (maybe not so protected, it thunks to 16-bit code every now and #_ then). #_ #_ But to claim that Win9x/Me "runs on top of DOS" is REALLY overly #_ simplifying it. It's like saying Linux running on a UMSDOS partition, #_ booted by LOADLIN, is "running on top of DOS."
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