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nm..got my answer.

He's right. Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 95 OSR2, 98, 98 SE, ME, are all graphical shells running on top of DOS. They have had additional 32 bit multimedia bindings such as WinG and DirectX grafted on top to bolster performance. But they are not OS'es. They are graphical shells.

Win XP is the first consumer operating system Microsoft has produced since MS-DOS 6.22. Between MS-DOS 6.22 and Win XP, Microsoft's only consumer level products have been a series of graphical shells. Versions of Windows based on the NT kernel, however, are proper OS'es. These have until now been targeted exclusively at the enterprise and business markets.
 
Ok, I get that part...I knew about that, but havent used any of those OS's in so long I forgot that they were actualy based on dos...Now how about mutli-tasking in those operating systems? He is saying they do not multi task, but if you were to look up the word "multitasking" in the dictionary, it says "The concurrent operation by one central processing unit of two or more processes." Isnt that how windows works...?
 
He's wrong in saying that the Win32 DOS-based OSes don't multi-task. They do multi-task. But they aren't very good at it. 😀
 
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