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Windows 3.0 (1990) and 3.1 (1992) had the same (nearly) VMM as Win98-Me, and was able of running several DOS VMs. The Windows apps themselves were running in 16bit protected mode.
VMM was written in around 87-88 for a product called Windows-386.
I would more say "DOS was used as a component" within Windows 3.x OS. For instance, in Windows 3.11 we had a 32bit disk driver instead of int 13h and 32bit FAT support instead of int 21h. The SMB network stack was also all 32bit, except the NIC driver itself.
was But a Darn. IMO, Win98SE (with some ME patches) was the 2nd best OS, they ever produced. It ranks right after MS-DOS. XP ranks as the most paternalistic, least user...
DPMI was always supported by VMM, I think from Windows 3.0 at least.
No. ME and 98 differ in tiny details.
The main difference between 98 and 95 is the NTKERN.VXD wrapper, which emulated a subset of Win2000 driver APIs (the subset was called Windows Driver Model - WDM) over the good old VMM. This allowed to run binary-portable drivers across 98 and 2000, built with 2000 DDK.
Simon Schršder compared to ie6, ie7 is a real improvement. and i'm comfortable working with ie7. (on vista you get ie7+, on xp only ie7) "similar looks"? i would be very surprised...
The whole USB and 1394 stacks in Win98 were written this way. I was able running OHCI1394 and 1394BUS binaries from w2k beta under Win98.
But, except NTKERN and WDM, Win98 is the same as Win95 OSR 2.
Neither Win98 nor MS-DOS can be called "stable", due to architectural problems of their. Well, DOS was written for an ancient CPU which could not support the real stable OS...
Win95 OSR 2 is the 1997-vintage OS which introduced FAT32.
Internally, it is absolutely another. A real well-designed OS, without looking back to the atrocious DOS legacy. Under NT, Win32 is a wrapper layer around the "native NT calls".
Yes. NT 5.0 and NT 5.1, look at version stamps on system files.
From what I know on Vista now - it is a major step from XP, around the same
-- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation
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