For the record arcade machines run emulators and therefore are the opposite of an embedded system as soon as you add a second emulator. Why? Because they are doing several tasks, not just one.
Dos is slow, handles large harddrives, large amounts of ram and large procesors badly, has memory leaks and is an overall annoyance unless you have a REALLY slow pc that can't handle the footprint that windows xp needs.
Dos is actually far less stable than windows, it just doesn't crash in lue of huge memory leaks, which are worse imho as you don't know anything is wrong. I have to agree with the last poster, if you take xp and strip it down, or even better take xp and run it with the custom gui option (type run gpedit.fsc and edit the custom gui option) you can't really do any better.
I knew some people would get mad about that comment, but I'm just trying to wake a few people up. This isn't 1994, you need to stop relying on dos quite so much. If windows is performing "worse" then it's your fault in the setup or inferior hardware, not windows.
People who hate windows just to be anti m$ need their head examined, as if it weren't for the superior corporate might of windows the whole personal computer fad would have never made it into mainstream. Of course no one will agree on me with that point either. It's real easy to resent a sucessful business and root for the underdogs, just remember that's the only reason you hate them.

Anyway, if you find this message offensive then just disregard ot or get mad and complain or whatever, I'm done preaching to the flock today.
