Not true, Wolfguard.
This is good old Dos as it once was. (somewhat) You can even rig up your machine to boot straight to dos by messing with your msdos.sys file.
While windows will give you errors out the wazoo if you simply delete your windows dir, when your PC boots up, The Dos prompt you have will still work perfectly fine. You won't be able to run any windows stuff, but that's because it's dos!

Porn For the Masses!

bout says it all.

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as soon as I disable SysTray, everything is fine and dandy, but how in all hell are you gonna do anything without a systray?
e.g. ICQ starts in the systray and not windowed, useless without the systray.
e.g. Sound settings cant easily be accessed because, quelle suprise, the quickest way is through the systray.

Need I go on?

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On another note, Jim, Win98 comes with PWS4, so you dont need to spend another 躔~ to get a "special OS" specifically for it.
Win98 is supported by most, if not all, hardware manufacturers for the PC.
Win98 has major game support, if you run NT, its highly likely you'll hardly get a game running, nevermind at the speed you want it to, even on your beast of a machine.

Once again, need I go on?

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The flaws are endless, yet the money still goes in M$'s pockets at the end of the day.

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It's kinda like a FTP client (and can be used as one as well). It also supports ZIP, LHA, ARJ, ACE, CAB files..etc. I rarely use DOS anymore because of it. Plus it's pretty easy to find a crack for it..

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so if you delete the windows dir you won't be able to do anything. This means the format / deltree / fdisk

So only the native commands are usable. That's the copy / del / md / cd / : / rd and perhaps a few more.

Aside from that, I really like most Microsoft products. Their productivity software (Word, Publisher) are good, their games are actually getting good (Age of Kings, Motocross Madness 2), and even their hardware is good (their Force Feedback stick is nice, and I still use my 3 year-old Sidewinder game pad. It's the best).

Sounds like it will be split into two pieces-the operating system as one company, and everything else as another. What do I see happening? Personally, I really think that someone will end up buying the operating system piece, possibly even the other half of Microsoft... although the government may forbid that from happening... meaning there will be a company immune to takeovers of any kind? How is that going to work? Won't that be against government "business equality" policies?

The government is opening up a can of worms. This could very well turn out poorly in the end.

-Firefox

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Originally posted by BM_Ray:
command.com is a new version Old DOS command interpreter, and windows 95/98 runs on top of that.

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Sorry to be picky, but not quite true. Command.com is just a command interpreter, it's just the prompt ( C:\> )that you see and type stuff into, it's not DOS. But I'm sure you knew that. Plus Windows doesn't really run on top of it. Windows is 32-bit. DOS is generally 16-bit. Windows is it's own operating system, though it does 'clunk' down to 16-bit DOS calls when accessing files. I don't think that's true on a FAT 32 file system though. (Forgive me if I'm not quite accurate - rusty on the internal workings of Windows)

[This message has been edited by Happyfish (edited June 07, 2000).]