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You've just done the same thing as the author of the article, only there are Raymond Chen references elsewhere in this thread that contradict your statements.
by zamalek 3y ago
You've just done the same thing as the author of the article, only there are Raymond Chen references elsewhere in this thread that contradict your statements.
- hulitu 3y agoRaymond Chen stated that there were different OSs running inside win3.1. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100517-00/?p=14013 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100517-00/?p=14... There was a lot of HW which only had DOS drivers which were loaded prior to starting Windows. Yes, the Windows kernel took the whole thing further but it still relied on MS-DOS for some things.
- zamalek 3y agoTSRs (which amount to "DOS drivers") were notoriously flaky with Win3.1. Some requiring installation prior, some requiring installation inside of a guest DOS shell, some just not working at all. More reliable ones (such as MSCDEX) were explicitly compatible with Win3.1 and its IDT. https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/vxd/vxd.htm https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/vxd/vxd.htm