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dos mode
Name: jon Date: September 6, 2000 at 01:34:44 Pacific
Comment:
Am i true in thinking that restarting in dos mode is just the same as a dos window?
Name: Preston Date: September 6, 2000 at 01:38:38 Pacific
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No. The two states look the same but are significantly different.
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Response Number 2
Name: jon Date: September 6, 2000 at 03:42:59 Pacific
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but are they both inferior to a step thru boot?
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Response Number 3
Name: JR Date: September 6, 2000 at 06:43:03 Pacific
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If you start a DOS window, you will rather be in a sort of emulator. The dos application runs as any other 16-bit application does in Windows, but it doesn't do much by itself. You can switch to and fro other applications and such, as the DOS window actually doesn't even handle the keyboard irq by itself. If you restart in DOS mode, you will be running DOS only, and DOS will do all file handling, interrupts, irq's and so on by utself without being restricted by Windows. For most programs, there is no significant
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Response Number 4
Name: JR Date: September 6, 2000 at 08:54:25 Pacific
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difference, but for some programs that do low'level stuff ,especially games, especially those who reprogram the PIT a lot, Windows will be disturbing. Though, if you double-click on a DOS program, or start a DOS prompt and run it from there, is no big deal.
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Response Number 5
Name: JR Date: September 6, 2000 at 08:59:24 Pacific
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I don't know why my post got so strange.
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Response Number 6
Name: jon Date: September 8, 2000 at 04:19:26 Pacific
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yeah, that fine but is the only real dos the one that gets selected as "command prompt only" from the f8 menu?
cos dos after a restart in dos mode, looks like dos but an exit takes me back to windows which gives the impression that windows is really underneath.
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Response Number 7
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 8, 2000 at 06:54:36 Pacific
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By real DOS we mean DOS 6.22 or earlier (preferrably DOS 6.22 though.) This is the last release of DOS that Microsoft made before Mr. Gates ate some bad mushrooms and set his sights on Windows 95. You can have both DOS 6.22 and Windows on a system, but it's usually easier to do this by first installing DOS, then Windows - something you're beyond now.
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