MS-DOS in XP

[Borgster]

i heard from some people in the zeropaid irc chat room that windows xp doesn't have dos in it anymore infact windows me didnt have dos (which got people pretty upset with ms), and that dos has been renamed to 'command prompt'. is microsoft trying to get away from there version of dos, and just renaming dos to command prompt? i find it funny that the command prompt in xp and 2000 looks, and acts the same as ms-dos.

and isnt most of windows built on dos, but with a gui frontend to make it easier for people? if my history serves me correctly, most computers before having the windows os had dos, and microsoft put dos in windows 95 for people who preferd it over the new gui from 3.1 i am a little bit familiar with dos commands, and i use the command prompt when i don't feel like using windows explorer to navigate my computer sometimes.

if anyone has some info about this, please respond.

[QuickSurfer]

actually any NT based micrsoft OS isnt based on dos. This includes Win NT,2000,XP

[mrlipring]

nah, before the os was sitting on top of dos. now there's a command prompt but there's no "real" dos.

glad there's still a command prompt, because winxp has a habit of telling you it can't delete things because they're in use. (sometimes empty bloody folders!) but you can delete them from a prompt.

[p00n1s]

Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME are all based on DOS. They all include DOS to some extent, as they need it to function. Windows NT was built from scratch and does not need DOS at all. In NT-based OSes, like NT 4, Win2k, and XP, there are DOS emulators, called :command prompt."