Why waste your time with DOS? There is already FreeDOS freely available.
Short answer: Because WinNT, Win2k and WinXP support DOS, two.
Longer answer: Because there existing still a lot of programs created for DOS, Win16 and so on. And it would be nice, to can all this older programs run.
Greatings theuserbl
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