alt Hacker News> At this point, XP and DOS are almost synonymous for me.
IIRC Windows 9x & ME were based on (MS)DOS; but 2k and XP were based on NT, which was quite different.
(Note sure what those differences actually are, since I only started programming once I'd switched to Linux...)
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gritzko • today at 11:27 AM
Exactly. I switched to Linux in the 90s.
That's correct. Personally as an MS-DOS retro enthusiast and programmer I don't know how anyone could call XP and DOS synonymous!