Re: RE: Virus Alert - Not a Hoax

From: Ransom T Holbrook (ransom@setel.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 06:36:32 EDT


> Hate to tell you, but Windows runs on a DOS shell-it needs DOS to run.
Boot
> up your machine...what boots first, and shows on the screen as booting?
DOS.
> So, what you are saying is Windows needs to be an antique. The only reason
> DOS is still there is for the programmers out there who want to say their
> desktop machine is like their mainframe.
> I run Windows 98 on my Mac-and its faster than a Wintel machine. And it
can
> run in DOS, too.
>

Hate to tell you, but Windows XP is based in NT and does not have DOS shell.
In XP, you have a emulator for DOS. When you turn on XP you get a log in
screen, not DOS.



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