Hello Bob!

13 May 08 11:38, you wrote to me:

 RC>> Everything that makes DOS as you know it, is emulated, that
 RC>> includes that which constitutes the 640k memory
 RC>> specification, XMS and EMS memory.

 RC>> When no console window is open, background, foreground,
 RC>> minimised, maximised or otherwise, it aint running..

 BK>  Which doesn't change the fact that they do run. The question was
 BK>  running a DOS based OLR under XP.

Yes and I am clarifying the differences between what is DOS and what was.

 RC>> Furthermore 16bit apps will cause the VDM (Virtual DOS
 RC>> Machine) to draw more system resources than 32 bit apps
 RC>> would, so given the choice when one wants to run programs
 RC>> in a non-gui window, get the 32bit ones.. Also known as
 RC>> console apps.

 BK>  Which doesn't really matter if you are not multi-tasking, and
 BK>  have enough resourses available.

Why not close all open windows and then peek into the task manager and tell
me Windows isnt multi-tasking?

Perhaps you lack the ability to comprehend what I said?

For example, right now I am in a console window, merely one created by a
SSH client. I am using Secure Shell to log into another windows machine
that in turn puts me at the command prompt for that machine. I then read my
fidomail that way using 32 bit console apps, such as my reader and the
tosser. Note, I said 32bit console apps, which run properly on a 32bit OS
with no need to call up the 16bit command interpreter. (COMMAND.COM)

 RC>> I setup FREEDOS to run in one of these virtual machines and
 RC>> it consumed more processor cycles than a Virtual machine I
 RC>> setup for the other 32bit OSes I tried, like Ubuntu.

 BK>  Which doesn't surprise me. Oh, and MS recommends a VM for some
 BK>  Dos programs that have problems otherwise.

A Virtual machine is a world unto itself.

 BK>>>  However, how do you access your hard drive without a disk
 BK>>>  operating system?

 RC>> Semantics...

 BK>  Yes. That is the point.

 RC>> Without Windows, anything DOS couldnt access my hard drives.

 BK>  And without some form of DOS Windows couldn't access your hard
 BK>  drives. Remember what DOS is an acronym for.

Well then Windows is a printer operating system, and I could list all the
other hardware..

Dont split hairs here Bob, you are bald.

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