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IIRC Win2k was already DOS-less, wasn't it?
by kaoD 12y ago
IIRC 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.