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Well.. this is a bit more complex than that. Turns out that Windows 95 depends on DOS in almost the same way that Windows 3.11 did. Windows 3.11 didn't depended on DOS as much as everybody thinks. There is a great book that explains this called Unauthorized Windows 95.
And, by the way, DOS was inaccessible in Windows 2000 because it was a Windows NT, Like Windows NT 4 before. In fact the first Windows who didn't have DOS on it was the fist version of Windows NT, Windows NT 3.1. Windows 8 isn't an evolution of Windows/DOS but an evolution of Windows NT.
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> Windows 95 was fantastic. I loved it so much (except that it wasn't DOS)
You might be interested to know that Windows 95 had about as much DOS in it as did the latest versions of the Windows 3.x series. Microsoft tried to sell it as a 'complete 32-bit rewrite', but in reality Windows 95 is mainly just a significant development of ideas that originated in Windows/386 2.11. Here's the rundown:
HIMEM.SYS
) that let it control the A20 gate and open up a bit more memory. (Windows/286 was mostly a dead-end, and despite the name, could run on 8086 class machines.)At this point, much of the architectural groundwork for Windows95 has been laid. There's a 32-bit kernel, the ability to load and run 32-bit Windows programs, and a 32-bit file system implementation. Viewed in this light, Windows 95 made the following improvements:
AUTOEXEC.BAT
.)If you're interested in knowing more (and I can't imagine why), this book goes into gory detail:
http://www.amazon.com/Unauthorized-Windows-Developers-Exploring-Foundations/dp/1568841698
IIRC, Schulman demonstrates how to get Windows95 running in DOS only mode, in addition to a mode where DOS is directly running on top of VMM, without the Windows GUI. Microsoft never liked to admit to it, but DOS was a huge part of Windows 95. They only got rid of it in OS/2, Windows CE, and Windows NT. (And Xenix, if you go back far enough.)