Re: Can't boot into Dos

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 14:37:08 +0000

gnophear wrote:

>Also if you realize what you wrote, you said in 98 you booted into dos. In 9x, they ran off of DOS with a Windows gui.

Actually that is not true. A DOS boot was used to load windows into
RAM, once there control was passed to the 32 bit Windows kernel, which
handled all system operations (even intercepting 'DOS' interrupts
generated by DOS programs, and then using WIndows or DOS code as
convenient) 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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