what is the latest in dos will its entry override the p3 or p4 systems now in use
2007-01-29 17:41:24 · 3 answers · asked by ash 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Entry? DOS is all but obsolete! What little DOS is left is in the bios.
2007-01-29 17:48:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOS commonly refers to the family of closely related operating systems which dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995 (or until about 2000, if Windows versions 95, 98, and M.E. are included) : PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, DR-DOS, Novell-DOS, OpenDOS, PTS-DOS, ROM-DOS and several others. They are single user, single task systems. MS-DOS from Microsoft was the most widely used. These operating systems ran on IBM PC type hardware using the Intel x86 CPUs or their compatible cousins from other makers. MS-DOS is still common today and was the foundation for many of Microsoft's operating systems (from Windows 1.0 through Windows Me). MS-DOS was later abandoned as the foundation for their operating systems.
2007-01-29 17:50:18 · answer #2 · answered by sanjaykchawla 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOS technically doesn't exist anymore, although elements of it are still in XP and probably VISTA
Command.Com no longer exits
IO.COM does
It would seem 6 or 7 was it for DOS with 98SE
I've seen NT and other "no DOS" OS systems and it still looks like DOS to me, but...
NO MORE COMMAND.COM
So DOS is more like a BIOS extension
You can STILL tweek XP and NT in "blue screen"
But it isn't the same as 98SE
2007-01-29 17:48:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋