Chris Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 11:37:57PM -0600:
> your cd rom, it can easily still work in ms-dos (last time I checked I can
> boot into dos and access cd's ;-)
Not without a driver.
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Greg
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From: Greg Thomas
To: 'Redhat_Post'
Subject: Re: FW: FW: How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back
to lin ux?
Date: Thursday, 26 March 1998 4:21PM
>
> > I'm curious: what one file constitutes the Windows
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
> Odd. If I "exit" Windows 95 to a DOS prompt, I can no longer access
> my CD-ROM and have to load a driver for my sound card. Similarly,
> if I boot to a command line rather than going into "the W
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
>> How? The kernel starts init (
>Before we can load the kernel, we need a bootstrap in the bios. Is this
>part of the operating system as well?
No, it's part of the BIOS.
>> Huh?
>The program, init, is a user input. Put a different program there called
>
> > I'm curious: what one file constitutes the Windows 95 operating
> system?
> > This should be interesting.
>
> No program defines the Windows 95 operating system because Windows 95
> is NOT an operating system. Windows 95 is an application running on the
> msdos
> OPERATING SYSTEM.
> MSDOS
