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Top Document: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 1/5 Previous Document: Section 1. General FAQ and Newsgroup Information Next Document: See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge No. Though Microsoft may not be actively developing MS-DOS there are still many computers that are not capable of running Microsoft Windows. The current versions of Microsoft Windows will also run most MS-DOS programs; therefore, MS-DOS is not dead, and will most- likely never die just as Commodore-64s and Amigas have not completely died. Indeed, DOS has found a new life in embedded systems. Other parties continue to develop MS-DOS compatible operating systems for more information see <Q:02.10> [What are my alternatives for MS-DOS compatible OSes?] Windows NT, 2000, and XP all have a "Command Prompt" which is similar to the orignal MS-DOS command prompt. The new Windows command prompt has some differences from the original MS-DOS command prompty; see <Q:01.12> [What other technical newsgroups should I know about?] for pointers on where to learn about these diffences. User Contributions: 1 Ben in Seattle ⚠ Jun 2, 2026 @ 4:16 pm Another solution is to use a parallel port loopback plug. It makes the PC think there is a printer attached. The benefit of this is it doesn't require anticipating the problem with ANSI.SYS escape sequences nor does it make you wait half an hour for the "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" prompt, as some versions of DOS do. Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 1/5 Previous Document: Section 1. General FAQ and Newsgroup Information Next Document: Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jeffrey@carlyle.org (Jeffrey Carlyle)
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