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From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Some Systems Defined
Date: 26 Jan 1999 18:19:25 GMT
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Ralph Proctor (ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net) wrote:
: Windows 95 ++ is an independent operating system with added GUI features.
: (Windows 95 ++ is NOT a GUI dependent upon DOS.)

I'd say this isn't true. WINDOZE 4.1 (98) first boots DOZE 7.x and then the
GUI on that. This can easily be seen by adding the right line to MSDOS.SYS. 
I don't remember exactly how the line looked like, but it was something like 
BootGUI=0.


Right,

							MartinS

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