[Secret Agent Man]

Before windows 95 windows 1, 2 and 3 were just gui shells overlaying the dos o/s.

[dayglored]

> Before windows 95 windows 1, 2 and 3 were just gui shells overlaying the dos o/s.

Win95 and Win98 still were just GUI applications that ran over MS-DOS. They largely supplanted the MS-DOS underlayment with Windows equivalents, but it was still really a DOS app. WinME tried harder to hide that fact, and that's one of the things that made WinME such a dog.

It wasn't until Win2K (actually NT5) that an MS-DOS-less Windows was made available to the general public. (NT4 was a bit over the top for average users.)

And they still had to provide CMD.EXE because there are some things that a GUI just won't do.

[Texas Fossil]

Win95 was too. The first where the GUI and graphic user inter-phase were integrated was Win98.

I began using Linux in 1994. The GUI is still separate, you can choose one or several inter-phases. I love XFCE GUI. Have been using it since Redhat 8.0 came out. It was not part of the package, I added it.

Over the past 10 years, it is rare that I use a Windows OS.

I almost never have a system hangup and have never had a Malware exploit.