Re: MS-DOS??
From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 02/12/04
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:46:55 +0200
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:26:07 -0800, "robbo" <rstewart@laneford.com.au>
>There are two ways to access DOS via winXP.
Do you mean the two ways of running a command prompt window?
>Dont go telling me that it cant be done, because ALL windows
>can be reset into dos mode that I know of.
No, they can't. Any OS can be booted instead of any other OS, as long
as PCs can boot drives other than HD0 and as long as PCs support a
system-wide partitioning system within which OSs reside.
Further; OSs that share the same file system may be able to co-exist
in the same partition / volume.
But no; even if you boot NT to "Command Prompt Only" or "Safe Mode
Command Prompt Only" (or boot Recovery Console instead) those are not
DOS modes. If anything, they are less DOS than a command.com window!
>Firstly theres the "majical F8" key, Give that a few bashes during POSTing
No, after POST. I suspect you consider all that is GUI to be Windows
and all that is non-GUI to be DOS, but text-mode environments are not
"DOS" unless IO.SYS is the underlying kernel.
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