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The evolution of DOS and Windows over the last 30 years makes me wonder if Windows is really even Windows. It started out as a Windowing environment that ran o
by cptskippy 8y ago
The evolution of DOS and Windows over the last 30 years makes me wonder if Windows is really even Windows.
It started out as a Windowing environment that ran on top of DOS but with Windows 95 it switched to a Windowing OS that also ran DOS. Later all of that was replaced with an entirely different OS (NT/XP) that basically supports the legacy OS in emulation.
- buckminster 8y agoNT had win32 from day one and it predates 95.
- cptskippy 8y agoYes and it wasn't really Windows. If you put a Windows 3.1 user in front of an NT machine they'd have been very confused.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoWin NT 3.X had the same interface with Program Manager.
- Sharlin 8y agoYou mean this one? [1] The shells in 3.0/3.1 and NT 3.1/3.5 were identical. Except the latter wouldn't hard crash the machine every time a program did something naughty, which might indeed be confusing to a consumer 3.1 user... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1#/media/File:Windows_NT_3.1.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1#/media/File:Win...
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoIf you put a Windows 3.1 user in front of a 95 machine they'd have been very confused. Exactly as confused, as it happens.
- zzo38computer 8y agoAlthough there are differences, many keyboard commands are the same, and some other stuff is also similar. Double clicking the icon to the left of the title closes the window, and double clicking the title maximizes the window, in both versions of Windows. ALT+F4 still closes the window, too. DOS commands are mostly the same (although Windows NT changes this somewhat, but still it is closely enough that you may be able to use without too much difficulty). All of this despite they move all of the menus around everywhere to make that stuff confusing.