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Comment about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 8:20 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jeff Kane
(1 messages posted)
I have a comment about How
do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?:
Author said "DOS is dead, Windows did right, get over it" or words to that effect.
The only problem with this is that DOS is still useful for many things that Windows
isn't. Ever try deleting a file in memory that won't quit via Task Manager End Process?
How about flashing the BIOS on a peripheral? Not EVERYONE has windows-based BIOS
flash utilities, especially not for motherboards.
Right now I have Windows2000, and it seems I'm unable to flash any bios, because
there is no way to get to a straight command prompt to do it.
So, until Windows becomes a fully-featured GUI, we still need DOS. P.S. - ever test
your RAM with Microsoft's utility? guess what, it doesn't run in *Windows* ....
Windows isn't complete enough to justify abandoning DOS yet. Get over it.
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