Comment by pixl97
5 hours ago
I mean, why would Microsoft program said protections into DOS when NT existed by 93?
Simply put there was no putting said protections in to DOS for a few reasons. Backwards compatibility being a huge one. That and memory in most computers was tiny, getting Linux running on most of them would have been difficult.
i think his point still holds but yours is true too.
win 3.1 had protected mode. but windows 95 which was dos based did not. 98 i think got protected mode? not 100% sure on that. i know in windows 2000 it was still horrible broken...