On 07/31/2016 11:21 AM, jim stephens wrote: > Windows 98 switched to protected mode almost immediately on boot, > and all the dos boxes were synthesized in virtual 8086 mapped mode, > and had no underlying booted dos environment.
I'm not sure that I follow here. I routinely use Win98SE for my DOS tasks--it boots into DOS quite nicely if you edit the MSDOS.SYS file to say BootGUI=0. You get MS-DOS 7.1 at boot. Add DOSLFN to your CONFIG.SYS and you even get long filename support. That's DOS in its unvarnished form, isn't it? What am I missing? --Chuck