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Comment on Myth: Windows 3.1 was just a shell on top of DOS

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It was not just a shell, but all other stuff is presented like microsoft sales memo. It had basic supervisor code that used intel v86 in protected mode and you can hang whole system with single call anytime. Guess what else can do it - Novell DOS 7. Win32s was much more of OS than windows 3.1

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