Last DOS version?

[nopfusch]

Hi,
the DOS version 6.22 was still on FAT and could not see larger HDDs then +/- 2MB, without any additional measures.
A couple of questions now:
How many DOS versions after 6.22 exist?
Can these or a particular version "see" HDDs or partitions > 2MBs?
And work on/with FAT32?
Have these versions the same 'features' as 6.22?

The information is required for a contest between school classes and should be correct, please.
Thanks
Regards
nopfusch

[Spider]

The information is required for a contest between school classes and should be correct, please.
Hmmm. School contest, ok...I'll give you this one because it's *not* homework.
You do have one problem though, how are you going to verify it's correct?
Tell them you got it from a technical help forum? From a guy called Spider?
Not the best source of actual fact.

None-the-less I'll give you the bones...you find the meat. To be a true winner
your going to have to get your hands dirty.

Windows 95 [Version 4.00.0950] Ver 7.00

Windows 95 OSR2 [Version 4.00.1111] Ver 7.10

Windows 98 [Version 4.10.1998} Ver 7.10

Windows 98 SE [Version 4.10.2222} Ver 7.10

Windows ME [Version 4.90.3000.2} Ver 8.00

[nopfusch]

Thanks Spider,

it's going to stay my secret, from where I got the info. Anyway, my granddaughter knows I spend every evening 1-2 hours on the internet. So she will - before I say anything - ask from where on the internet I got the info.
And there are so may addresses and I'm a pensioner and I forget things ...

I'll find the meat - I like the way you put it.

Thanks again
regards
nopfusch

[Spider]

Heh, I like the granddaughter :)

You'll do fine nopfusch.

After Windows ME was Windows 2000 and Windows XP. There is no MS-DOS in these operating systems,
we now call it the command interface.

Microsoft evolves their operating system as time goes by and the need for an independent DOS was fading.
Incorporating it into the O/S (Operating System) was the next logical step.

Longhorn (or whatever Microsoft is going to call it when it's released late 2006/early 2007) is going to be minus
one more thing we have all gotten use to using...the registry! Yes, no more regedit in Longhorn. Who knows,
by 2012 we may be all going to a one-button mouse <shrug>.

[nopfusch]

Hi Spider,

I found something ...http://www.winhistory.de/DOS.HTM .
I wonder how the have in 2010 (or whenever) their weird DOS commands converted?

And by the way, my granddaughter is for her age (13) really good with the PC. She even uses the screw driver to change cards or puts more RAM in (gift from grandpa, both, the screw driver and RAM). But she hates OS's for old peoples ... like DOS.
HmHm, but I'm excluded so she says. ;)
Thanks for the info

regards
nopfusch

[Spider]

I wonder how the have in 2010 (or whenever) their weird DOS commands converted?
Not sure I follow you here. What is on that page?