Restarting windows in DOS

[Tim Slattery]

MSDOS, again, is NOT the same as DOS! Even Microsoft correctly discusses
the DOS features of XP, NOT MSDOS! The differences you'd like to describe
are that XP is not built on DOS as other Windows were. Instead, the DOS in
XP is available via the newly coined Command Prompt.

No, that's not DOS. DOS is a 16-bit, real-mode operating system. SP's
command prompt is a 32-bit command console. Programs running in that
environment can use the entire Win32 API set, are not restricted to a
few hundred KB of memory, but can use hundreds of MB like any other
Windows program, and can do anything a Windows GUI program can.

And what do you mean that MSDOS isn't DOS. MSDOS is an acronym for
Microsoft Disk Operating System. Win3x and Win9x launched from DOS and
used DOS for some facilities (especially I/O), but those systems did
their own memory management, scheduling and other things. WinXP
launches directly, DOS is nowhere to be found.

 

[Paul Knudsen]

It's not CALLED DOS and it isn't DOS!

Yeah, yeah, but it's a lot like it. Many identical commands, etc.