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The treatment of Windows 1.0 as a "DOS front-end" fails to take into consideration that it was designed to be just a graphics environment used by applications, rather than a full-fledged operating system. Windows 1.0 included original device drivers for video cards, mice, keyboards, printers and serial communications. Applications were supposed to only invoke APIs built upon these drivers. Given that contemporary graphics support in MS-DOS was extremely limited and given the limited usefulness of the other services, MS-DOS applications had to go to the bare hardware (or sometimes just to the BIOS) to get work done. Therefore, rather than being a front-end to MS-DOS, Windows 1.0 complemented and partially replaced it. The level of replacement would increase in subsequent versions.