On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:58:05 -0400, "Josepi"
wrote:

MS always toots no underlying DOS in the later Windoze versions but anytime
a system error is incurred the DOS message shows up to indicate the
communication method with the shell has never changed.

Many system HDD applications still have to run in an isolated shell under
DOS secretly.

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"Jack Stein" wrote in message ...

On 5/21/2011 1:56 AM, Lobby Dosser wrote:
Not really because Windows 1,3,95 98 (et al) were shells that ran under
or on top of the DOS operating system. Not sure about XP or Vista, I'm
no longer interested enough to care.
DOS is no longer underpinning anything from XP on. It's NT underneath
now - but they now have a "dos emulator" as part of the shell that
runs ON TOP of NT.