Because Micro$oft makes more money from Windows (now a generic term per a federal judge on Wednesday) than they ever did with their DOS products is the bottomline financial reason.
howard schwartz wrote: > Forgive the non-Linux question - but: > > At least windows 9x appears to start an initial command.com dos shell > and read config.sys etc. before it continues to load windows. > > > Ordinarily, windows runs a second copy of command.com to run a dos > program or give you a does window. Is there some way to run a dos > program or create a dos command line, using only the original copy of > command.com in memory, thus saving some memory? > > I guess I am asking for win 9x, why must one temporarily switch from > the windows to a dos shell by running a dos shell within the windows > shell? Conceptually, perhaps the answer is that one would need to > `temporarily' unload all the windows stuff in memory, or swap it to > disk, in order to go back a step to the original command.com that was > loaded first. > >
