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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_W who wrote (8234)	7/19/1999 10:02:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Right, that's what I meant. NT has a command prompt, but it is not a "DOS box" even though it looks like one. You do not have access to the physical machine directly; only what NT makes available in its virtual machine. Since you can't really manage a machine without physical access to its facilities, NT should provide that function to system administrators. Instead, you have to be able to boot another OS that does provide that access to carry out a few low-level tasks. I don't believe this has changed for Win 2000. It sucks in any year.