Posted by Woody on January 27, 19101 at 00:25:51:
In Reply to: Tabular Summary showing significance of carbonization posted by Philoman on January 26, 19101 at 17:29:08:
: Perhaps, however, the tabular summary below can help to give a perspective to the continuity/discontinuity/bridging discussions we've had.
T, anyone?: I vaguely recall, between DOS 6.0 and W95 those early windows programs, the last version/release being 3.1 maybe? prior to W 95?
One clue to the discontinuity might be the changes in start-up sequences at boot-up. In DOS there were the old autoexec.bat and config.sys files which were edited at the command line level. These still had a role with Win 3.1, along with various *.ini files and *.sys files which would be invoked along with application programs when they were run.
My take is that, progressively, the registry (system.dat and user.dat) has taken over most of these functions although there are still some artifactual *.ini files, *.sys files and other batch files which get used. There is also, as someone pointed out before, an unwieldly amount of file proliferation in the windows environment when programs are installed (all over the place).
There was positively a discontinuity along the way when the file allocation tables began to operate in a 32 bit environment.
Teresita, any help here? I want to make sure our Microsoft users grasp this metaphor but am fuzzy on those upgrades from years ago (although I recall mightily resisting them all!). I didn't like having batch file editing functions hidden from my eyes.
I'm sleepy. Great table, Philo.
Woody