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No, that‘s not exactly what happens, albeit a commen misconception. Win 95 (and earlier releases) were not just a GUI shell on top of DOS. They were Operating S
by omnibrain 6y ago
No, that‘s not exactly what happens, albeit a commen misconception. Win 95 (and earlier releases) were not just a GUI shell on top of DOS. They were Operating Systems (with their own functions and capabilities) that used DOS as part of their boot process and to provide compatibility for some things (oder drivers, etc.)
If you executed a DOS program within Win 95/3.1 it did not run on the underlying DOS “layer” but in some sort of DOS virtual machine.
So what happened when you booted into “dos mode”? You really booted into DOS like you said without the last step of loading Windows. But loading Windows was not just like startx but more a continuation of the boot process into the Windows Operating system.