Miguel Garza <[email protected]> wrote: >> ...Honestly, seems to be easier to run stuff in a >> "DOS" window in XP than booting straight to DOS...
and Dennis McCunney <[email protected]> replied: > It's not really a "DOS" window. Run a 16 bit DOS program, > and Windows spawns NTVDM to provide an MS-DOS environment, > and a copy of COMMAND.COM to run the DOS app in a console window. > If you shell out of the DOS app in the console, you are in 32 bit > Windows land, talking to CMD.EXE > You can set up a preferred DOS environment in the \Windows\System32 > autoexec.nt and config.nt files. These are read and processed > whenever a DOS app is run. Is all this true also of x86 Windows 7 ? Indeed, can Window 7 (or 8) run a pure DOS program, without use of an external emulator ? JAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
