re: Question about 'Load DosKey in a DOS box automatically'
Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 9:31 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mario
(2 messages posted)
thx Matt for the detailed answer!
ciao
Mario the floridian...
On Friday, February 4, 2005 at 7:45 pm, Matthew D. Healy wrote:
>Welcome to the wonderful world of software history!
>
>Windows XP represents the convergence of two
>different histories. For over a decade, Microsoft
>maintained two independent operating systems,
>the consumer systems Win1.x-Win3.x, Win95,
>Win98, WinMe
>and the corporate systems WfW, WinNT1, WinNT2,
>WinNT3.x, Win2K, etc.
>
>The NT-derived systems were more powerful, stable,
>and secure but also less compatible with oddball
>hardware and many applications. The consumer
>systems were much more compatible and
>user-friendly -- setting up networking on NT3.x
>was a ROYAL PAIN -- but also the consumer versions
>were much less stable.
>
>Of course, this led to a lot of wasted programming
>effort for Microsoft maintaing two platforms. It also
>led to a lot of wasted testing effort among developers
>who had to test their stuff on both platforms.
>
>For some years, Microsoft had the goal of joining
>these two different streams of code, and XP
>represents the result. Not perfect, still has its
>quirks, but overall the best OS from Redmond by
>far.
>
>Command.com was the commandline in Win9X
>because it was the commandline in DOS, from which
>Win9X was derived. NT had no DOS heritage, so
>it had its own command interpreter cmd.exe. With
>XP, you get both -- cmd.exe because it's what the
>serious professionals use, and command.com for
>compatibilty reasons.
>
>But GWBASIC is finally gone from XP! It came with
>Windows through 95 for sure, and I think maybe
>also 98 and ME. Actually, the GWBASIC
>from my old 95 CD still seems to work fine under XP!
>
>
>
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