11 Mar 11 19:49, Scott Little wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    SL>>> The NT line of Windows don't have real DOS, they run a virtual   
    SL>>> machine (NTVDM) that's derived from MS-DOS 5.   
    RW>> Why not MSDOS 6.2?   
      
    SL> Don't know, but v5 was the current version when NT was developed so   
    SL> presumably they used what they had and didn't think it worth the   
    SL> effort to bring it up to date with v6.  IIRC most of v6's   
    SL> improvements were unnecessary or handled by NT itself anyway: memory   
    SL> management, boot profiles, disk cache, disk compression.   
      
   I can understand their lack of support for a dying OS...   
      
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