-----Original Message-----
From: BROWN Nick <Nick.BROWN@coe.int>
To: 'masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de' <masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de>; Philip Gladstone
<philip@raptor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 11:14 PM
Subject: RE: Oops assist... [New idea]
> >1) what's 'fast reboot'.
> >Windows 95 has the feature that you can reboot Windows without
> >restarting
> >the computer, i.e. not BIOS self test. Much faster.
> >It's implemented by an old DOS program that sits below Windows:
> >(WIN.COM)
> >if Windows exits with return code 0x42, then it will restart
>windows
> >instead of shutting down the computer.
>
>You are "rebooting" Windows, only to the extent that the word "reboot" has
>been redefined (actually I think MS say "restart Windows", which is more
>accurate, so for once it's not them hijacking jargon to mean what they feel
>like). Windows 95 is barely more of an OS than Windows 3.x was - it's just
>that there is more stuff done by 32-bit drivers and not many calls back to
>services provided from real mode. But Windows 95 isn't really in control
of
>the machine - it's just a huge complex DOS extender with a GUI.
>
>In fact you can start Windows 95 (or rather, DOS 7.0) in text-only mode,
>quite trivially by hacking a line or two in the file called (!) MSDOS.SYS.
>In fact, it's a text-mode operating system with an optional graphical
window
>environment running on top of it. Hmmm, where have I seen that before ?...
>(This is not a trivial analogy. If an average user has an X server
problem,
>s/he can restart X without rebooting Linux, and this is not far off what
>happens when you "restart" Windows 95. DOS 7 doesn't provide the kind of
>fast reboot we're trying to propose here.)
>
>Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)
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