> Because there is no such thing. Anyone claiming to run MS-DOS 7.1 is using a
> hacked> version of Windows 9x. (<- that's a period) Actually, no. Just like
> previous versions of Windows, 9x is simply a DOS application, not an
> Operating System. Windows 3.x called itself an Operating Environment (not an
> Operating System), which is fairly accurate. You don't need to "hack" Windows
> 9x to get rid of the Windows part and keep the DOS part. All you need to do
> is edit the MSDOS.SYS file to keep the DOS application called Windows from
> trying to load automatically. MSDOS.SYS is a plain ASCII text file, similar
> in many respects to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. From the DOS command line
> you can simply enter "win" to run the Windows application if you want to,
> just like you could with all of the previous versions of Windows. I
> personally don't consider any of that to be "hacking", merely configuring,
> though I suppose some others might disagree. For your Windows 9x / MS-DOS 7.x
> to be "legal", it should have been purchased or donated (either directly or
> indirectly) from MS. That could include any of the millions of copies that
> were legally purchased at one time, and donated/sold (or abandoned and left
> in the "trash heap"?) to someone else when they weren't needed by the
> original purchasers any more. MS wouldn't even accept money from you if you
> tried to buy a new legal copy from them nowadays, of course, because they
> don't actually have anything to sell and there would be at least an implied
> obligation on their part to provide some support for it (along with a host of
> other reasons). But, that's an entirely separate and complicated conundrum
> with legal, ethical, and logical aspects.
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