04 Mar 11 18:56, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW>> After closing my reader yesterday, I looked at the folders on C: and   
    RW>> there is one named MSDOS7, which has the DOS files in it. I'm   
    RW>> thinking about updating W2k to XP and am now curious as to what that   
    RW>> OS's DOS will be named.   
      
    RB> Actually nothing. You have a "command prompt" which gives you a DOS   
    RB> screen, and an "autoexec.nt" and "config.nt" in \windows\system32   
    RB> that do what they do under DOS when you're running a DOS session. The   
    RB> versions in the root C: are just zero-byte dummies, but required for   
    RB> booting. You can also set the parameters for individual DOS sessions   
    RB> individually.   
      
    RB> WinXP is an independent graphical OS, not merely a graphical add-on   
    RB> to an underlying DOS system.   
      
   Like W2k and its earlier version cousins of W9x.   
      
    RB> Why not install a VM (such as MS Virtual PC - free) - and set it up   
    RB> with WinXP as a guest system just to get a feel for it? That doesn't   
    RB> affect your present setup and helps you get used to a new system   
    RB> without risk.   
      
   I have Vista installed on my laptop. I don't use that for Fidonet, but I   
   have used the executables in Windows/system32 with it. Attempting to do   
   that under W2K, of course, doesn't work.   
      
      
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