Dos life expectancy

[RavenCrow]

I would like to know what is everyone's opinion on how long Dos will still exist. Does Win 2000 still have a dos or is it moving towards NT where the OS hosts Dos instead of Dos hosting the OS? Untill now, Windows could not breath without dos but since NT came around is there any need for it anymore, accept supporting emulations of it for older programs?

Just curious

[Desire]

Hello,
There is a short piece about the future of dos in one of the news articles on this site, it isn't that old so you should have no problem finding it.

Desire.

[HarryW]

I wouldn't mind them moving to the NT approach, so long the emulated version of DOS has more than 640k of conventional memory! Then some of my old games might work

[Sam Finch]

Ther's still a DOS prompt on win 2000 I think everything will still suport DOS for a very long time but it won't rely on DOS, I think you can still base Windows 2000 on program manager if you want. It's very hard to get rid of old technology because you don't know what might still be using it and it doesn't take up much memory, I've got an old Amstrad that runs DOS and that's from the days when 20Mhz was fast and a hard drive was a real luxury.