Beyond DOS 6.22

DosMan007 · Post by **DosMan007** » Thu Jun 20, 2024 7:43 pm

So I wasn't even aware of this, but Windows 9x came with MS-DOS 7, and Windows 4.0. Microsoft never released DOS 7 as its own release. Anyway, what I wanted to ask was, let's say DOS 7 was its own release. Say we have internet capability. If you want to access websites/download things, that would all need to happen in some form of a GUI wouldn't it?

The only GUI for DOS would have been Windows, more namely Windows 3.11. Apparently DOS 7 and Windows 4.0 was sold together and marketed as Windows 95 and made to look like one package. BUT... you can install Windows 95 on top of a DOS 6.22 installation, and with ver, you still have a reported DOS 6.22 version.

(I thought DOS 7 was Windows XP. I knew DOS was over by that time, but that whatever DOS remained it still had its own version number 7 or 7.2)

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Jul 01, 2024 11:55 am

DosMan007 wrote: ↑ Say we have internet capability. If you want to access websites/download things, that would all need to happen in some form of a GUI wouldn't it?

There's a DOS-based web browser called Arachne.

There's also a DOS-based GUI OS called XFDOS.

So no, Windows 3.x is not the only GUI for DOS that is available.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Mon Jul 01, 2024 3:15 pm

Curiously, DOS 10.0 was the version number used with IBM:s OS/2 text console, but I would not call OS/2 a GUI for DOS.

DosMan007 · Post by **DosMan007** » Tue Jul 02, 2024 9:21 pm

Rwolf wrote: ↑ Curiously, DOS 10.0 was the version number used with IBM:s OS/2 text console, but I would not call OS/2 a GUI for DOS.

I always thought OS/2 was the baseline for Windows. I could be way wrong about that. But it was DOS 6.22, then next thing was OS/2.