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Originally Posted by Quoth
It is NOT the DOS command prompt (or MS Command Prompt). It's a console window. It ONLY runs NT commands. Some have the same name as DOS ones. It's not "bundled", it's an inherent part of the operating system, also called Terminal Mode in some operating systems. [...]
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Seems to me you're making a mountain out of a vernacular molehill. Lots of people use "dos prompt" and "command prompt" and "console" somewhat interchangeably, just as many non-techies refer to the system unit (computer chassis or case) as the "cpu". Technically wrong but nothing to get too het up over.
Certainly it is true that anyone running Windows 95/NT onward is not actually running over top of a real Disk Operating System as they used to (if they are old enough). Instead they have been running either a virtual DOS machine or running a console program that did pretty much the same things (as far as most users are concerned), plus a few more. When comes to explaining why some things work in this
display-that-looks-exactly-like-the-old-DOS-display but not that
display-that-looks-exactly-like-the-old-DOS-display, the distinctions matter, otherwise
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