Comment DOS Hardly Gone (Score 3, Insightful) 794
Although various system calls and 16bit support may have disappeared, most of the DOS look and feel is still going strong in Windoze.
I havn't used XP yet but I'll be surprised if these DOS features have been removed:
I havn't used XP yet but I'll be surprised if these DOS features have been removed:
Directory structures starting with a 'drive' letter
Text/Binary open Mode for files (the notorious ^Ms)
The inability to delete a file which is open
File types based on
OS compontents still using 8.3 filename format