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were just GUIs on top of DOS (which was the underlying OS), almost like a glorified Norton Commander and such, but more robust. Windows didn't become a complete OS on its own until the NT line. Even 9x still relied on DOS.

Posted by mudpuppy1

2nd Feb 2012