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With Win 9x crashes frequently occur even when all programsĪppeared to be running normally.
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Windows 2000 is a much better operating system than 95/98 because when a program crashes or freezes you can usually escape without having to reboot the computer. Programs that might have failed to run under NT/2000. Older games were said by Microsoft to be the only DOS and Windows (3.x, 9x, ME) Microsoft's NT/2000 operating systems include a DOSĮmulator that will run many but not all programs originally written for DOS.
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They are primary operating systems, not DOS add-ons, but they can run many programs written for Windows 3.xĪnd 9x (and Windows ME, which is an update of Win98). Windows NT (versions up to 4.x) and Windows 2000 (which is really NT version 5) are different. Tailored to Windows 95 (and Windows 98), which pretends to be the operating system but is in fact a program run by DOS, just as were Windows 3.1 etc. The DOS operating system was improved and refined by MicroSoft up to about Version 6, circa 1995. When ordinary people talk about "DOS" they mean any of this family of operating systems. MSDOS is the same thing when it's bought from
There are other trade names such as Celeron, for similar CPUs.ĭOS was the name that IBM gave to the Disk Operating System that they bought from Bill Gates, who had bought it from some other spotty youth for $100 in the late 1970s. Was given to later models instead of 80586, 80686 etc. They are acronyms for computer operating systems sold by MicroSoft, to work with computers that contain Intel central processors (CPUs) with numbers ending in 86 (8086, 80286, 80386, 80486) or the name Pentium, Using DOS when your computer has been set up to use Windows.
A DOS box is just another window! The keypress Alt+Enter changes an insipid Windows screen into a full-size DOS text screen, which is much more readable than the tiny print provided by Windows.