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Who told you? Windows uses more resources than DOS.. As we know that DOS can support less hardware than Windows and BIOS is the controlling system for integrated hardware, hence we can easily understand the utilization of DOS and Windows..

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Q: Why is BIOS accessed much less by Windows than it is by DOS?
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