3 ms·

Windows 3.x and 9x are "shells on top of DOS" the same way that Linux can be a "shell on top of DOS": https://github.com/haileys/doslinux https://github.com/hai

Windows 3.x and 9x are "shells on top of DOS" the same way that Linux can be a "shell on top of DOS": https://github.com/haileys/doslinux https://github.com/haileys/doslinux

hulitu 3y ago
Not really. Linux can initialize HW itself. Win3.1 and sometimes 95 relied on DOS to load drivers for some perpherals (Sound cards for example) because there were no Windows drivers available.
- helf 3y ago
  [dead]
- Narishma 3y ago
  That's exactly how I ran Linux on my first PC. It didn't support my sound card, so I had to first boot DOS with the sound card drivers which provided a SoundBlaster compatibility layer, then started Linux from DOS.