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Chris reviewed an app that emulated MS-DOS, so I was wondering if you could do that on a computer. Is Command Prompt like DOS? Let me know. |
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In short the Command Prompt is designed after MS-DOS, but is not DOS. MS-DOS is an operating system that was used "back in the day". It is full screen text. The Command Prompt is not DOS, but it is designed to look and act like DOS. On 32-bit Windows operating systems it can do virtually anything DOS can do. There are emulaters (e.g. DosBox) that will virtualize an imitation of DOS, usually to separate it from the main computer's operating system and to emulate hardware that was used in the DOS era of computers. |
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In all basicness, yes, command prompt is MS-DOS... For Windows NT. Windows NT is not DOS-based, so it isn't true DOS, but it's close. I have found that some old DOS programs have sound/display issues in command prompt, so when I need to run these, I use a program called DOSBox. It will give you real DOS on your Windows NT-based computer (NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, etc.), Linux box, or Mac. You can get it here. |
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Used to work at several radio stations which used DOS 6.2 for their on-air programming boxes. Since the owners owned part of the company...they didn't see any reason to buy other software to run the stations which would cost them an additional 6 Windows licenses. As for FreeDOS...it is a great system with FAT32 support...a modern TCP/IP stack and a way to run anything you used the Microsoft version for. |
