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Answer» I "safely" assume that is DOS that comes with Windows, not pure MS-DOS. That's what i observed most of the time when posters did not indicate their OS.To be technically correct, DOS is not part of Win XP or Win 2K. But, DOS commands can be used by opening a "command prompt" panel. That may seem like a contradiction but this reference gives a very brief explanation: http://www.5starsupport.com/xp-faq/1-59.htm I mean, how many computer users are still running computers with MS-DOS as the OS? I suppose what I should realise is that most of the people who post on here are from the 4 corners of the world, often English is not their first language, and they do not KNOW or care if the command prompt they are using is called MS-DOS, Windows NT, or Loonix. They just want to fix some immediate problem and get back to playing World Of Warcraft. The only person I am giving a hard time to, by getting all *censored* about the terminology, is myself. So no more rants. Windows 95, 98, 98SE, and ME all use MS-DOS 7 or 8 as the command interpreter so when a user of one of those OSs opens a command box they are using MS-DOS in a 16-bit virtual machine. Also when a user boots from boot disk prepared in Windows they are running MS-DOS. Vista boot disks contain MS-DOS 8. # MS-DOS 7.0 - August 1995 – shipped embedded in Windows 95. Included Logical block addressing and Long File Name (LFN) support # MS-DOS 7.1 - August 1996 – shipped embedded in Windows 95B (OSR2) (and Windows 98 in June 1998). Added support for FAT32 file system (COMMAND.COM is 93890 BYTES) # MS-DOS 8.0 - September 2000 – shipped embedded in Windows Me. A subset is included with 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Last VERSION of MS-DOS. Removes SYS command, ability to boot to command line and other features The 'subset' is what you get if you type "command" at the 2K or XP prompt CODE: [Select]c:\>ver Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] c:\>command Microsoft(R) Windows DOS (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001. c:\> cmd.exe is the NT prompt interpreter, and command.exe is the DOS one. Also, NT CLASS OSs can run 16-bit DOS using DOS 5 command.com in an NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine) like this... Code: [Select]C:\>ver Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] C:\>exit c:\>command.com /k ver MS-DOS Version 5.00.500 C:\> |
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