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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
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Location: North Texas, USA
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| dosraider wrote: | Fully agree with that.
It was only a reply to GameMaster.EXE 's statement, he give me the impression he consider Windows 3.1. as a full OS, concived for a 386 cpu.
Or something..........hmmm.
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Why the hell would I think that? Windows 3.1 needs dos just to show it's puny face!! I think what I was trying to say was that if dos was the only OS on your system, a 386 cpu is needed to install and run Windows 3.1. Windows XP is a complete OS, with no needed dos support. |
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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
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Location: North Texas, USA
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:15 am
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| 486 player wrote: | | 586 was the 1st Pentium generation. |
80586?!?  |
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Frenkel
Way too much free time
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Location: Netherlands
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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
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Location: North Texas, USA
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:05 pm
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| GameMaster.EXE wrote: | | 486 player wrote: | | 586 was the 1st Pentium generation. |
80586?!? |
Hey! nobody told me they a 586
"1st Pentium Generation?" I think 486 player is talking about 8586 |
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486 player
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 18 Sep 2002
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:16 pm
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| Looks like it. |
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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
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Location: North Texas, USA
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:24 pm
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| yeah........... |
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Kazer0
Mercenary Dishwasher
Joined: 17 Sep 2002
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Location: In an igloo with my pet penguin, eh?
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:10 pm
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| dosraider wrote: | | GameMaster.EXE wrote: | | I'm using a 486. 386 was the standard for Windows 3.1.............. |
Win 3.x is a GUI for dos....NOT an OS !!!
Delete your dos and win 3.x won't even run.
Graphical
User
Interface
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Wow, you really are being a jerk. But since you want to be technical, he is quite right. It is a computer operating system.
Operating Systems allow an interface between the user and the computer hardware. Even though Windows 3.1 was built on Dos, it allows the computer to function, and the user to make it do so. It is quite possible to have an OS on another OS. |
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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:50 pm
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Kazer0
Mercenary Dishwasher
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Location: In an igloo with my pet penguin, eh?
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:40 pm
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| No, its not at all. Please see the post in general off-topic. |
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WishboneDawn
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Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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Location: Eastern Canada
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| GameMaster.EXE wrote: | | GameMaster.EXE wrote: | | 486 player wrote: | | 586 was the 1st Pentium generation. |
80586?!? |
Hey! nobody told me they a 586
"1st Pentium Generation?" I think 486 player is talking about 8586 |
?? They changed the name from 586 or 80586 to Pentium because of copyright issues.
For the record I'm putting a Cyrix 686 (equivelant to a PII) in my next DOS build. |
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Gamer_V
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
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Location: The Netherlands
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| I knew it! I always said a 586 is like a pentium, but no they didn't listen... I pity the fools. |
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WishboneDawn
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Location: Eastern Canada
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:26 pm
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| Gamer_V wrote: | | I knew it! I always said a 586 is like a pentium, but no they didn't listen... I pity the fools. |
Some simply game, some of us are hardware geeks. |
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dosraider
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Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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Location: ROTFLMAO in Belgium.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:54 am
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| Kazer0 wrote: |
Operating Systems allow an interface between the user and the computer hardware. Even though Windows 3.1 was built on Dos, it allows the computer to function, and the user to make it do so. It is quite possible to have an OS on another OS. |
Yes you can have an OS on a OS, BUT win3.11 isn't a OS , never was and never will be.
A OS is an operating system, win 3.11 is a graphical user interface.
take away io.sys, msdos.sys, himem.sys, emm386.exe,mscdex.exe or any needed file (msdos/drsos/pcdos/freedos or whatever win3.11 can run on) and you can trow your pc in the trashcan.
win3.11 isn't able on his OWN to run on ANY pc.
It is an interface, shipped with some improved sysfiles,who remplace the originals,nothing more and nothing less, a interface. |
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Wally
i r teh pwnage
Joined: 01 May 2003
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Location: Australia, earth, Milky way
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Windows 3.11 is for workgroups
Windows 3.1 is for any user except for those who need a network
Windows 3.1x is more like Dos with pictures on top. |
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dosraider
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Location: ROTFLMAO in Belgium.
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THX Wally, that clarifies the...the....yep.
I would like to see Kazer0 install his w3.x OS on a formatted HD, as he claims it is an OS, their would be no problem. |
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