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You’re lying about what I said. Don’t lie about what I said.

I never lie; you quotes are taken verbatium from your posts. In it's entirety, you said

I already gave all the proof anybody needs. You gave nothing. NT is not new from the ground up. (Emphasis is mine) The sources are simple reality, the Windows box that’s probably in front of you right now has tons of DOS legacy in it, some of which I already listed.

Here's yet another source, as you apparently have not learned that you are in error.

Windows NT 3.1 was the first version of Windows released by Microsoft that was not based on a DOS kernel. NT 3.1 used a clone of the Windows 3.1 UI, but, unlike Windows 3.1, NT 3.1 was a 32-bit operating system written from the ground up.

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You see, unlike you; Devnet currently does this stuff for a living, and I used to do R&D work on the hardware side. When someone starts spouting misinformation, it is best to educate them (not insult them, humiliate them or browbeat them) so they understand their error. Your misstatement has ramifications that are entirely untrue, and will be a huge impediment to someone trying to learn about how an OS functions. This may not impact you in the least; but you will very likely create a Machiavelli Mechization in your efforts to helps someone. On your part, it will be an honest, honorable and friendly piece of advice; the result will look like you sabotaged the recipient.

But that’s not what you said I said. Here’s what you said I said: This person insists, that because he can still run DOS commands, this is proof that Windows is just a DOS based application, sitting on top of DOS.

And your quote just proved that’s a lie.

As for what’s best to do, you and Devnet have done nothing but browbeat attempt to humiliate and insult me.

I made no misstatement, and understanding that there’s still DOS logic and code in the gut of Windows won’t impede anyone learning how to use it. In fact it will help, very often when you run into something in Windows that just seems too stupid to be true remembering that it’s been built on top of a 30 year old single user single threaded no communication with other computers OS helps a person understand why the hell they did that.

And I’ve been in the industry for 15 years, mostly working the Windows world. So you can stop waving your “quals” around I don’t care, and stop making assumptions to compound your lies.