Question about dos

[Wes]

Is win nt through xp runing off of dos? Or is it
independent now?

[Harry Ohrn]

No DOS.

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"Wes" > wrote in message
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> Is win nt through xp runing off of dos? Or is it
> independent now?

[Ken Blake]

In , Wes wrote:

> Is win nt through xp runing off of dos? Or is it
> independent now?


There is no DOS.

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[Jim Macklin]

There is a DOS emulator you can access a command line that
acts generally like DOS by Start/Run (type) cmd

Not all DOS commands are supported, at the cmd prompt type
HELP and you'll get a list of commands. This list will
scroll. To see the details type the command, space /?




"Ken Blake" > wrote in
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| In , Wes wrote:
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| > Is win nt through xp runing off of dos? Or is it
| > independent now?
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| There is no DOS.
|
| --
| Ken Blake
| Please reply to the newsgroup
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[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

The NT operating Kernel is not based on DOS and has been separate for quite
a long time. There are many features that are similiar, such as command
line driven utilities, but they are vastly different.

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"Wes" > wrote in message
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> Is win nt through xp runing off of dos? Or is it
> independent now?

[Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor]

Some time, on or about: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:08:02 -0700, "Wes"
> was criminally insane in my professional
opinion when they claimed the following balderdash:

>Is win nt through xp runing off of dos? Or is it
>independent now?

Windows 95/ 98/ 98SE/ ME are all operating systems based on the old MS
DOS kernel and uses some form of the FAT file system. Windows NT 3.51/
NT 4.0/ 2000/ XP are based on the NT kernel and use the NTFS file
system (though you can load it on FAT32 but I really wouldn't). IOW,
XP doesn't use DOS anymore, though you can still open a command window
up in it.