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It is possible the reason is because Windows was not really adopted until 3.11 which was around 1992. But even then people still used DOS to load some applicati
by sixothree 12y ago
It is possible the reason is because Windows was not really adopted until 3.11 which was around 1992. But even then people still used DOS to load some applications and games.
- zirkonit 12y agoGood point!
- sanoli 12y agoTrue. I used win 3.11 when I had to use Word. Other than that, it was DOS.
- digi_owl 12y agoYep. Windows 1.0 to 3.11 came as an "add-on" to DOS. Heck, even as late as Windows ME you had some kind of DOS sitting at the bottom. Only with Windows XP did consumer Windows fully evict the DOS underpinnings. I think my first PC came with MS-DOS 6 and Windows 3.11. Barely touched Windows back then.
- kaoD 12y agoIIRC Win2k was already DOS-less, wasn't it?
- digi_owl 12y agoYep, being of the NT lineage. But it was not really sold to the consumer market (tough it had better gaming support via directx than any previous NT version). XP was the first consumer NT based Windows release.
- jermy 12y agoWindows NT 3.1 (1993) and its successors (NT 4.0, Windows 2000, XP and the server equivalents) was independent of DOS, but was separate to the other OSes (Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME) that ran with a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit monolithic kernel on top of some sort of MS-DOS.