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I know alot about DOS and i have several games and such that run in it..
But we may be over looking the fact that windows may be NOTHING MORE THAN A HUGE DOS PROGRAM!!
Its always interested me and i think to some extent it may be correct :)
Whadda ya think about it guys??
Depends on how you define "DOS". If you simply mean "Disk Operating System", then I suppose all Operating Systems that handle Disk functions could be called a "DOS". :)
In essense they are both operating systems its just that windows much like many Linux distros has a graphic user interface [GUI] full of icons,shorcuts and such.Whereas DOS just gives the user a blank screen to work with and little indication of whats going on or how to start something and is immensly less user friendly.
Early versions of Windows certainly were DOS programs. Windows 1.0 was a text mode DOS application. I think the last Windows version that could justly be considered so was 3.11. Up until this version, there was a Real Mode DOS that relinquished control of the system to Windows, and reclaimed control when Windows terminated. When Windows exited, DOS was waiting to run further programs via a Command Line Interface. 9x and NT/XP series Windows has perforce to start in Real Mode because an Intel x86 CPU has to start in Real Mode, there's no way around that. But there is no longer a DOS that has relinquished control of the system and is waiting to reclaim control when Windows ends, so I doubt if Windows can now really be described as a "DOS program" in that way.
Interesting..