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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: "Tim Bird" <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 10:33:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: running opendos with win 95
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References: jruby AT pressenter DOT com        "running opendos with win 95" (Mar 25, 11:08pm)

Once upon a time (on 26 Mar 97 at 11:20) Tim Bird said:

> jruby AT pressenter DOT com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possable to install open dos on a machine running win 95?
> > If so, how well will it get along with win 95?
> 
> Not well.  Win95 is more closely "knit" with MSDOS 7.0 than was
> Windows 3.1 with earlier MSDOS versions.  I believe it is possible
> to dual boot them, but I think it is not possible (at the moment)
> to boot Win95 on top of OpenDOS.  I haven't set up dual booting
It will not be possible at all (i.e. booting on top of *any* other DOS than 
MS-DOS 7.xx) - even the newest Memphis release of Win95 (oops, 97...) 
*requires* MS-DOS to run and operate!!! Well, and they told us Win95 *does 
not* need DOS anymore... How do they call it? A lie? ;-))
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