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A member of the series, Windows XP, debuted on October 25, 2001, and became the first consumer-oriented version of Windows to not use DOS. Although Windows XP could emulate DOS, it could not run many of its applications as they ran only in real mode to directly access the computer's hardware, and Windows XP's protected mode prevented such ...
dbDOS is software developed by dBase for Windows computers with Intel processors. dbDOS allows Intel-based PCs to run DOS Applications, such as dBASE III, dBASE IV (Version 1, 2, 3), and dBASE V for DOS in an emulated DOS environment. It is an environment configured specifically to allow the various versions of dBASE for DOS to run without any ...
Virtual DOS machines can operate either exclusively through typical software emulation methods (e.g. dynamic recompilation) or can rely on the virtual 8086 mode of the Intel 80386 processor, which allows real mode 8086 software to run in a controlled environment by catching all operations which involve accessing protected hardware and forwarding them to the normal operating system (as exceptions).
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This beast of a computer got the same Intel processor and NVIDIA graphics card as the desktop above. It has also a giant 18-inch screen, which runs at 240Hz — that means super smooth gameplay.
DOSEMU is an option for people who need or want to continue to use legacy DOS software; in some cases virtualisation is good enough to drive external hardware such as device programmers connected to the parallel port. According to its manual, "dosemu" is a user-level program which uses certain special features of the Linux kernel and the 80386 ...
Not true. It's possible to run a virtualisation application such as DOSBox or Virtual PC on x64 Windows, which in turn can run DOS or Windows 9x which rely on 16-bit code. The x86-64 and Long mode articles both correctly claim it is possible. I'd say Microsoft just didn't want to have two separate WOW emulation layers.
The difference between running DOSBox compared to a virtual DOS session in Microsoft Windows (cmd.exe or command prompt) is that DOSBox gives you the Z:\ and will not allocate drive letters for other partitions or storage devices automatically. This is an important difference between DOSBox, real DOS and a "DOS Window" within Microsoft Windows.