Windows a BIG dos progee?

[Dude111]

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??

[SpywareDr]

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".

[104456]

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.

[Platypus]

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.

[Dude111]

Interesting..