Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:52:08 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: yeep <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist 2.0
In-Reply-To: <199703211330.OAA07535@magigimmix.xs4all.nl>
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:

> > A much better way of saying it would be to say "Make W95
> > *PROGRAMS* run from OpenDOS".  Then I could see it making more
> > sense.
> 
> Okay, so it might be stupid.
> But wouldn't it be a killer to have Win95 run from OpenDOS?
> After all Win95 isn't an OS, it's merely a shell running on MS-DOS 7.0,
> regardless of what Micro$oft claims!
> Running Win95 apps from OpenDOS, that'd also be a nice backstab to M$!
> Image the headlines: Forget Windows, Run you Windows applicstions from DOS,
> OpenDOSQQQQ
> 
> 	Yeep
> 
> I'll take the 'run win95' part from my wishlist, though I think it would be
> cool if it was made possible!

It might take a lot of kludging to do.  Wouldn't it be better to
be able to run W95 apps WITHOUT W95 at all?  That way you could
use your own choice of GUI.  Mine would be Xfree86 of course.

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