[Mr. K]

Windows has not run on top of DOS since WinNT i believe (maybe even windows 95, but certainly 98)

[nobdysfool]

Win 98 was the last to run on DOS. WinNT, 2000, and XP are a different system. Win Millenium was an attempt to marry DOS with NT, and failed miserably.

Don't confuse command lines, and their commands. Even though NT has many similarities in commands with DOS, they are NOT the same.

WinXP is NT 5.1

[calex59]

Win98 and 98SE both run on top of dos. You can make a dos startup disk with both of these operating systems, therefore they are running on dos and accept a limited amount of dos commands, however MS gutted most of the commands from Win95,98 versions. XP, ME and Vista claim not to run on Dos, they have a different type of Disk operating system. Bill tried to kill of MSDOS as soon as possible due to limitations in the system and the fact that he didn't really invent it as he wanted people to believe.

DOS was very useful but had some faults. I actually liked DOS and found it easy to understand and use, but all things fade away eventually.

[Reaganesque]

My mistake. Is DOS now a part of Windows? There is a command to go to the DOS Prompt so, I guess I’m confused.

[Chode]

yeah? you think so huh???

hit start, then run, then type in cmd and hit return and tell me what happens...