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Answer by davolfman for Was MS-DOS window in Windows 95 something like...

Not in Windows 9x.However, in Windows 2000 and XP, and later there was a Virtual Dos Machine that even came with some limited soundcard emulation.It could even be extended with a piece of third party...

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Answer by Justme for Was MS-DOS window in Windows 95 something like current...

No, running MS-DOS window in Win95 was nothing like DosBox.DosBox is an emulator, but Windows 95 ran DOS in a 16-bit process as virtual machine.DosBox is basically a C program that emulates all the...

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Was MS-DOS window in Windows 95 something like current DosBox?

Windows 1.x, 2.x and 3.x required a DOS to be loaded before running them. Later Windows 9.x and ME had similar (?) way of working, but DOS was included with them, 32-bit multitasking and other stuff...

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Answer by U. Windl for Was MS-DOS window in Windows 95 something like current...

Basically running a "DOS Box" in Windows/95 (or even in Windows/386) did not start "MS-DOS", but a "command prompt" (command.com), and as MS-Windows can run programs in windows only, a "console" (80x25...

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Answer by U. Windl for Was the MS-DOS window in Windows 95 an emulator like...

Basically running a "DOS Box" in Windows/95 (or even in Windows/386) did not start "MS-DOS", but a "command prompt" (command.com), and as MS-Windows can run programs in windows only, a "console" (80x25...

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Answer by davolfman for Was the MS-DOS window in Windows 95 an emulator like...

Not in Windows 9x.However, in Windows 2000 and XP, and later there was a Virtual Dos Machine that even came with some limited soundcard emulation.It could even be extended with a piece of third party...

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Answer by Justme for Was the MS-DOS window in Windows 95 an emulator like...

No, running MS-DOS window in Win95 was nothing like DosBox.DosBox is an emulator, but Windows 95 ran DOS in a 16-bit process as virtual machine.DosBox is basically a C program that emulates all the...

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Was the MS-DOS window in Windows 95 an emulator like current DOSBox?

Windows 1.x, 2.x and 3.x required a DOS to be loaded before running them. Later Windows 9.x and ME had similar (?) way of working, but DOS was included with them, 32-bit multitasking and other stuff...

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