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Just came up into my mind about this Windows XP setup. When you install Windows XP, this blue SCREEN woull be the environment right?



My question is if in Windows 98 installing we call as DOS environment because Windows is supports DOS. In Windows XP what should we call that?Windows XP does not have a true DOS. It's an EMULATED version of DOS (Command Prompt).
You can't run real mode DOS-programs and you can't have real mode drivers, as you could in true DOS.

I think, the last Windows version based on real DOS was Windows ME. MS stopped DEVELOP DOS around year 2000.Quote from: Broni on October 04, 2007, 11:47:45 PM

It's an emulated version of DOS (Command Prompt).

What do you mean about this "emulated DOS" sir?A bit of reading on emulation in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulation

And the Virtual Dos Machine specifically: (the emulated DOS XP utilizes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTVDM

Quote from: SHENGTON on October 04, 2007, 07:13:45 PM
In Windows XP what should we call that?
What to call it... The Windows XP setup perhaps? emulate = imitate

Actually this emulated DOS has some advantages, compare to REGULAR DOS.
For instance in regular DOS, commands, you typed in, were limited to "8+3" FORMULA (8 letter file name + 3 letter extension). Emulated DOS (Command Prompt) doesn't have this limitation.
That is a filename limitation...not a command line limitation.Quote
That is a filename limitation...not a command line limitation.
Let me rephrase...

Let say you have a folder C:\Program Files

In DOS based Windows, while in DOS window, you can't execute command:
cd C:\Program Files
You have to type:
cd C:\Progra~1

With Command Prompt in post-DOS Windows, you can execute:
cd C:\Program Files

This is what I meant.
Surely, in real DOS, you can't have a file name, going beyond "8+3" rule.


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