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MS-DOS
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The ancestor: MS-DOS, the "disk operating system" with console-only UI. Up to Windows ME, all following os flavours by Microsoft (except the classical NT series) were built on a DOS core. [more...]

Windows 3.1/3.11 For Workgroups
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An add-on GUI for DOS with an own driver model and MacOS-like usability. [more...]

Windows 95
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Although promised to be a DOS replacement, this flavour still based on DOS but inherited a mixed 32bit architecture including a Windows-level driver model. [more...]

Windows 98/SE/ME
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Windows 98 basically brought slight improvements of Windows 95 such as more drivers, USB support, new UI controls etcetera. This also applies for the two other successors Windows 98SE (second edition) and Windows ME (millenium edition). [more...]

Windows NT/2000
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Split from the OS/2 tree in the 1980s, NT and later Windows 2000 became the "professional" branch fully based on a 32 bit core and only supported 16 bit apps due emulation - not by a mixed architecture as to be found in Windows 95 - thus providing much more stability. [more...]

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