Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>> I remember win95, a good user interface with DOS - where is DOS now?
> >>
> >> Hidden in the command prompt box: cmd.exe
> >
> > Yes, I know, but this DOS is not a real DOS, try to launh a program like
> > Fractint, it can't run.
>
> That's because DOS is a monotasking real-mode OS; applications run under
> it have complete access to the physical hardware. The command prompt in
> Windows is merely a DOS-compatible command interpreter. Windows itself
> is a multitasking protected-mode OS. So a program like FractInt which
> performs direct hardware access can never work under Windows.
>
> You can, however, run it in a virtual machine if you so desire...

Yes, but I remember that MS has developed a multi-task version of DOS. Why MS
has not implemented this version?

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