From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:35:59 GMT
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On 16 Apr 2000 05:41:33 GMT, arromdee AT rahul DOT net (Ken Arromdee) wrote:

>In article <38F8D80C DOT 29D0 AT earthlink DOT net>,
>Rez  <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
>>You know, instead of KILLING DOS entirely, what they should do is by
>>default install a dual boot with the "other" boot being pure DOS. Then
>>Windows could be free of real mode code (since this seems to be their
>>objective), and users who need DOS could still use it without having to
>>thrash around with a boot disk that may or may not work, and without
>>having to hunt for another dual boot util that is guaranteed to work
>>with WinMe (that's almost as good as WinCE :)
>
>You can always use a DOS startup menu, unless they took out the
>ability to do that.

If you set BootMenu=1 in msdos.sys, it leaves off options 5 and 6
(command prompt and safe mode command prompt).

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