PopsiclePete
Mission programmer
Wrong. Win9x is just DOS with a GUI loaded on top of it. Before Windows XP (and ancestors NT/2k) became mainstream the personal computer market was filled with expansive, Win32 DOS boxes.Ijuin said:DOS died when Win98 became the dominant operating system.
Besides, DOS isn't even dead, it's still used by many companies such as IBM, HP/Compaq, Nortel, etc for many specific needs where a lightweight OS is needed. We have many brand new medical eqipement still using DOS in our hospital (although it is true that more and more uses Windows 2000 embeded). DOS is even still developed and enhanced by open-source people.
DOS is just not the main personal computing OS anymore, but it's not dead yet.