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  2. Architecture of Windows 9x - Wikipedia

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    The Windows 9x kernel is a 32-bit kernel with virtual memory. Drivers are provided by .VXD files or, since Windows 98, the newer WDM drivers can be used. [2] However, the MS-DOS kernel stays resident in memory. Windows will use the old MS-DOS 16-bit drivers if they are installed, except on Windows Me. In Windows Me, DOS is still running, but ...

  3. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory.

  4. Comparison of operating system kernels - Wikipedia

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    Windows 9x kernel C++: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me Microsoft: PE: ... Storage Spaces / Disk Management ... Single system image Clustered file system;

  5. MSDOS.SYS - Wikipedia

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    By default, the file is located in the root directory of the bootable drive/partition (normally C:\ for hard disks) and has the hidden, read-only, and system file attributes set. The MS-DOS derivative Disk Control Program [ de ] (DCP) by the former East-German VEB Robotron used a DCDOS.SYS filename instead.

  6. HIMEM.SYS - Wikipedia

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    In FreeDOS, the matching file is named HIMEMX.SYS and can be loaded from the FreeDOS configuration file named FDCONFIG.SYS or CONFIG.SYS. It is also plug compatible with MS-DOS HIMEM.SYS, offering additional control parameters. [1] In Windows 3.1 and Windows 9x, there is also a command-line loadable version of HIMEM.SYS called XMSMMGR.EXE. It ...

  7. Windows 9x - Wikipedia

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    Based on the Windows NT kernel, Cairo was a next-generation operating system that was to feature as many new technologies into Windows, including a new user interface with an object-based file system (this new user interface would officially debut with Windows 95 nearly 4 years later while the object-based file system would later be adopted as ...

  8. Boot image - Wikipedia

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    Some virtual machine infrastructure can directly import and export a boot image for direct installation to "bare metal", i.e. a disk. This is the standard technique for OEMs to install identical copies of an operating system on many identical machines: The boot image is created as a virtual machine and then exported, or created on one disk and then copied via a boot image control ...

  9. Extended boot record - Wikipedia

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    An extended boot record (EBR), [1] or extended partition boot record (EPBR), [note 1] is a descriptor for a logical partition under the common DOS disk drive partitioning system. In that system, when one (and only one) partition record entry in the master boot record (MBR) is designated an extended partition , then that partition can be ...