User: The Borg

DOS Hardly Gone

On: MS DOS: A Eulogy

Although various system calls and 16bit support may have disappeared, most of the DOS look and feel is still going strong in Windoze.

I havn't used XP yet but I'll be surprised if these DOS features have been removed:

Directory structures starting with a 'drive' letter

Text/Binary open Mode for files (the notorious ^Ms)

The inability to delete a file which is open

File types based on .xxx extension

OS compontents still using 8.3 filename format