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I hope this is not off-topic, but I saw that this
is under discussion ...
I am running a beta of Windows 2000, which is based
on NT 'technology', that being the more protective kernel and NTFS file system,
etc. It does have a Command Prompt, as Windows NT 4 had, which is basically the
same as the well-known MS-DOS Prompt. Windows 2000 (and NT4 for that matter)
doesn't support booting to pure-DOS mode, however.
As far as I know, 'Windows Millennium' is in beta
testing, which will be a continuation of the 'old tech' Windows 95, Windows 98
line, which will surely have the same MS-DOS Prompt as they had, and I cannot
see that Millennium will differ from 95/98 in any major way which will influence
DOS apps which ran on 95/98. So, as far as I know, there _will_ be a 'Windows
Millennium', which should arrive some time after Windows2000.
Relating to the question about COMMAND.COM and
CMD.EXE, I looked at my installation, and found the following (Win2000 installed
in C:\WINNT) :
CMD.EXE and COMMAND.COM in C:\WINNT\system32 :
which does the following when I run it :
COMMAND.COM gives :
Microsoft(R) Windows NT DOS (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-1996. CMD.EXE gives :
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2031]
(C) Copyright 1985-1999 Microsoft Corp. Hopefully this is not too much off-topic rambling,
but I hope it helps :)
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