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Somehow related: I used to run both 3.11 and 95 over the same DOS 5 (?) installation. It's a less known fact that, although Windows 95 ran in protected mode, it
by narag 3y ago
Somehow related: I used to run both 3.11 and 95 over the same DOS 5 (?) installation. It's a less known fact that, although Windows 95 ran in protected mode, it was started as a DOS real-mode program before switching modes and, when it was run from a DOS command line, it shut down back to the DOS prompt, so I could run both Windows versions without completely rebooting. It was useful because at the time I was programming versions of the same program for both systems.
That means that Windows 3 was compatible with the newer DOS version that came underneath 95. If someone still has the software and wants to test it, IIRC the only thing needed was to edit autoexec.bat and have different directories for every Windows.