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To: ctdonath2

You missed some. Like 2000 and the two NT versions that preceded it.


46 posted on 07/21/2015 5:08:50 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton; ctdonath2

2000, XP and subsequent versions were all based on the NT kernel which loaded directly, while 3.1, 95, 98 and ME all loaded on top of DOS. There was a startup switch in 9x and ME that would boot to the DOS prompt, at which point one could load the GUI by typing “win”. For a couple of years Novell servers were running on Win98 machines using this switch because NetWare was not a standalone OS; the NetWare server software was actually a DOS app.


57 posted on 07/21/2015 6:16:38 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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