2007-03-21 18:59:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Disk Operation System (DOS) is not the only operating system there is (or ever was) & as a standalone no longer exists in modern computers.
MS-DOS 6.22 was the last stand-alone version of MS-DOS & was removed from marketing by Microsoft on November 30, 2001.
IBM released the last commercial version of a DOS - IBM PC-DOS 7.0 - in early 1995.
Windows ME was the last Microsoft OS to run on DOS; operating systems in the Windows NT line (including the post-NT 4.0 versions, such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP, which aren't marketed as "Windows NT") are not based on DOS.
The Altair 8800 .... was first widely marketed home computer &the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC.
Nowadays XP & Vista do have "command prompt" functionality available as well as DOS "emulation", however, this is NOT DOS .... it just looks like it.
sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800
regards,
Philip T
2007-03-21 20:20:30 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's not a "system" without something to instruct it on what to do and that is what dos does.
2007-03-25 13:31:36 · answer #2 · answered by pilot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOS is just an operating system , you can install linux/unix/Sun OS in your PC and work without DOS and windows
2007-03-21 20:31:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
every OS comes with DOS....cuz if the GUI (Graphical user interface) isnt working, the only way to communicate with the system is through DOS.
2007-03-21 19:03:24 · answer #4 · answered by Sean Lawlor 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
how do you survive without a brian, same question
2007-03-21 19:02:14 · answer #5 · answered by 1Man1God 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋