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==Decline== The changing towards the NT kernel resulted in the operating system not needing DOS to boot the computer as well as being unable to use it. The need to restart the computer in real mode MS-DOS declined after [[Windows 3.1x]] until it was no longer supported in [[Windows ME]]. The only way of currently running DOS applications that require real mode from within newer versions of Windows is by using emulators such as [[DOSBox]] or [[x86 virtualization]] products.
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