"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

>I don't remember any DOS v1.0

DOS is a generic term. There were many variations of DOS. MS-DOS, PC
DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS, ROM-DOS, JM-OS, and several others.
There was a V1.0 for MS-DOS which is probably what the author intended
to say.

>Now I see Windows 7 has a XP compatibility mode.
>Which will just cause XP to live out a much longer lifespan
>of any OS before or after it. <grin>

Naw, DOS will still be king. You will just have to run a DOS window in
your XP window... 8-O