[Ham-Computers] DOS in XP-Home

[Jay Eimer]

Not really.  It's that it never was there.  Win 3.x ran on DOS.  You started
Windows in the autoexec.  Win9x (95, 98, and ME) used a newer DOS, and
autoloaded Win.com without having to explicitly put it in the autoexec.bat,
but there was still a DOS underneath.  Basically, DOS is the operating
system and Win9x is the graphical user interface.

But XP is built on the NT kernal.  NT server (various 3.x versions), then
NT4 (server and workstation) NT 2000 (server and workstation) and all
flavors of XP (and 2003 server) all use some version of the NT kernal (in
place of the old "DOS" operating system).  So if you did a "shut down and
restart in "dos" it wouldn't be "DOS" anyway.

HTH,
Jay 

-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of N9RSU
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 20:23
To: 'Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting'
Subject: RE: [Ham-Computers] DOS in XP-Home

Your out of luck,  

DOS was removed completely from all versions of Windows XP.  

Leroy de N9RSU 


-----Original Message-----
From: jandlmiller at bellsouth.net [mailto:jandlmiller at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 19:50
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Ham-Computers] DOS in XP-Home

In Win95B and Win98SE we had the ability to restart in the MS/DOS mode via
Start/Shut Down/Restart in MS/DOS mode.

This option isn't available in XP-Home.

Is there any way an XP user can restart in the MS/DOS mode thereby avoiding
the Command Prompt (DOS) session running underneath Windows XP?

John W0IKT

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