AIN'T NO DOS?

P

Pop

I don't mean to be as offensive as this probably sounds, and
it's not aimed at anyone in particular, but ... for those of
you who love the confusing fact that there is no DOS in XP,
go open up XP and search Help for DOS, will you?

Help and Support just now reports no less than 118 (ONE
HUNDRED EIGHTEEN!) hits for DOS, WHILE some feel the
constant necessity to tell people there is no DOS in XP.
There seems to be everything there from autoexec to zip.
So, when you stick all that useless no-DOS facts in front of
a newbie and the fact means nothing to him/her, what do you
think it makes YOU look like? STOP PLAYING SEMANTICS!!
A newbie that never saw DOS3 or 6 or 9 doesn't distinguish
much between these things. GIVE THEM A BREAK, WILL YOU?

You would better serve the community at large to -quit-
showing off the "facts" you know in instances where it is N
OT relevant to the question that was put up. I get so sick
of that little narcissism cropping up all the time! I use
DOS ALL THE TIME on my XP Pro and Home machines, and it's
the DOS that came with the OS!!!!!!!!!!

If you've gotta show off, why not go to someplace where your
information will be appreciated and not actually be an
attempt to confuse people with facts? Usually irrelevant
facts, at that.

Regards, believe it or not,

Pop
 
G

Gordon

Pop said:
I don't mean to be as offensive as this probably sounds, and
it's not aimed at anyone in particular, but ... for those of
you who love the confusing fact that there is no DOS in XP,
go open up XP and search Help for DOS, will you?
Click to expand...

It's a DOS emulator. It is NOT dos.
 
C

Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)

Guess you had better notify Microsoft that they included DOS in their
operating system, and that the system utilizes said DOS frequently. You see,
they don't know about this. It would be nice if you tell them!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :)
 
G

gls858

Pop said:
I don't mean to be as offensive as this probably sounds, and
it's not aimed at anyone in particular, but ... for those of
you who love the confusing fact that there is no DOS in XP,
go open up XP and search Help for DOS, will you?

Help and Support just now reports no less than 118 (ONE
HUNDRED EIGHTEEN!) hits for DOS, WHILE some feel the
constant necessity to tell people there is no DOS in XP.
There seems to be everything there from autoexec to zip.
So, when you stick all that useless no-DOS facts in front of
a newbie and the fact means nothing to him/her, what do you
think it makes YOU look like? STOP PLAYING SEMANTICS!!
A newbie that never saw DOS3 or 6 or 9 doesn't distinguish
much between these things. GIVE THEM A BREAK, WILL YOU?

You would better serve the community at large to -quit-
showing off the "facts" you know in instances where it is N
OT relevant to the question that was put up. I get so sick
of that little narcissism cropping up all the time! I use
DOS ALL THE TIME on my XP Pro and Home machines, and it's
the DOS that came with the OS!!!!!!!!!!

If you've gotta show off, why not go to someplace where your
information will be appreciated and not actually be an
attempt to confuse people with facts? Usually irrelevant
facts, at that.

Regards, believe it or not,

Pop
Click to expand...
DOS? We don't need no stinkin' DOS :)

gls858
 
M

Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)

When they ask about it, they have already run into trouble in that their DOS
applications or some DOS applications don't work or won't install.

We've giving them the facts....You are the one playing semantics and with
this post, you are confusing those newbies who already can't get their DOS
game or some other application to run in XP. And why won't it run in XP
when it ran without issue on Windows 9x? Why indeed. Windows 9x was built
on DOS code and most Windows 9x systems can still exit to DOS, XP can't; why
not, there is no DOS in XP. There are some command line tools, many of
which have the same name and appear to work the same as in DOS but most of
that simply lets a user comfortable with such things work with a command
line and do so using XP's DOS emulator and even of those don't work.

It has a DOS emulator.

You would better serve the community at large by helping those you think we
are misleading by helping them run in DOS in XP since you think it exists
rather than excoriating us based on misinformation, misinterpretation and
your own opinion, uninformed though it may be.
 
G

Gordon

Tom said:
LOL, computers didn't just revolve around MS based OSes ya know!
Click to expand...

No of course not, dork! there was MS Dos, PC Dos, C/PM etc etc, most of
which was probably before your time. I was answering the question "what is
dos" if you didn't manage to read ALL the post.

Sheeeesh!
 
M

Miss Perspicacia Tick

Crusty said:
Guess you had better notify Microsoft that they included DOS in their
operating system, and that the system utilizes said DOS frequently.
You see, they don't know about this. It would be nice if you tell
them!
Click to expand...

LOL!! Did you know he also thinks that Windows XP contains Office?! The guy
needs a good going over with a clue-by-four. He laid into me once calling me
names I daren't not repeat because I told someone that Office XP Students
and Teachers was a per system licence (which it is)!

I can't be arsed to copy and paste but the link is here
(http://tinyurl.com/yrafm) if you're interested! He also told someone else
that the reason his Office XP Pro with Publisher wouldn't activate on his
new system was because it was pirated - yep, he doesn't know what OEM is
either!

The guy is a complete moron - he needs to increase his IQ tenfold just to be
considered an idiot!
 
M

Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)

Thank you, Miss, for the enlightening reference.:)
 
M

Miss Perspicacia Tick

Michael said:
Thank you, Miss, for the enlightening reference.:)
Click to expand...

Not quite sure what that's supposed to mean, Mike. You knew who I was,
right?! ;o)
 
M

Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)

Yes, I knew, it meant enlightening about Pop!
 
G

Guest

Your s*it don't stink


----- Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote: ----


The guy is a complete moron - he needs to increase his IQ tenfold just to b
considered an idiot
 
R

RobertVA

If a program uses standard BIOS functions for I/O it will work fine in the
"Command line" Virtual Machine. A significant number of complex
applications, including many games, were coded to use the hardware directly
and aren't compatable with the virtual machine as a result. The virtual
machine is designed to protect the operating system from application crashes
and violations of resources reserved for other applications and the
operating system itself. The DOS mode that allowed full hardware access for
DOS applications in earlier versions of Windows wouldn't be able to access
NTFS partitions either.
 

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