Is Linux the new DOS
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@tonyshowoff said:
@thecreativeone91 in NT4 (NT 3.51 and before had NewShell only I think), because MSDOS was not a part of NT, but I know what you're talking about, the little MSDOS icon. I think until XP an emulated "command" (MSDOS) was available from run like cmd, with limitations like no copy and pasting, irritating crap like that. The great thing was that it often ran outside the bounds of group policy, so if you were locked out of cmd, certainly you could open command.
You can still get DOS and run it on top of Windows, but it isn't the shell that people use. CMD.exe and DOS are unrelated, other than sharing a lot of syntax for historical reasons. And it isn't that they are both DOS, they are both derivatives, stylistically, of CP/M.
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@scottalanmiller I know they're unrelated, I was merely pointing out command and how it was controlled in the same manner, though you can do a lot of the same operations. And CP/M, now there's something from a time machine. The APIs were originally so close it often didn't take much editing, sometimes none, to port a piece of software.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@scottalanmiller I know they're unrelated, I was merely pointing out command and how it was controlled in the same manner, though you can do a lot of the same operations. And CP/M, now there's something from a time machine. The APIs were originally so close it often didn't take much editing, sometimes none, to port a piece of software.
Did you ever watch that San Francisco IT / computer industry news show that was hosted by the creator of CP/M? It was great. I watched most of the series last year (while working a horrible job that my only joy in was watching ancient IT television programs via YouTube.) It was like an amazing walk through my childhood. I had not had access to that show when I was little but it really took me back. So good. Sadly, he died of cancer part way through the shows run
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Ah, DOS 6.22. That brings back memories. That was "the" DOS for me. For a lot of people I think. The last DOS that was really, quite obviously, DOS.
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@scottalanmiller Yeah, it was called Computer something or other and it was on PBS I think, he was a host for a while. They used to re-air that a long time ago.
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I don't think it was PBS I would have seen it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I don't think it was PBS I would have seen it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Chronicles
Yeah, PBS
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That's definitely the one. Must not have been syndicated where I grew up.
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Bits & Bytes we had and it was epic. LOVE that show, even now.
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So you linked this topic in another thread, and I just read through this. Did anyone else use HDM on DOS?
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Not me, what did it do?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Not me, what did it do?
It was just a menu system. The left were pages and the right had the items you could run. You had to manually put everything in the menu, but then you could just hit the number that corresponded to your program.
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I used something like that, but can't remember the name of it. I think it was built into DOS v6 or maybe one of the 5's
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I just remember running this on my 386 as a kid and playing Wolfenstein. Before that I had a Tandy 2000 with dual 5.25" floppy drives.
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I was already off of DOS by that era.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I was already off of DOS by that era.
I was 4 when I had the Tandy. 6 with the 386.
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The first computer I remember was my Dad's 286... The first one I had was a 486 with math coprocessor and 4MB of RAM (it was a hand me down)
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I was already off of DOS by that era.
I was 4 when I had the Tandy. 6 with the 386.
Whipper snapper.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I was already off of DOS by that era.
I was 4 when I had the Tandy. 6 with the 386.
Whipper snapper.
Haha, they were hand me downs from my dad. He had a side shop. He also did estimating for a paving company and managed their PDP-11.
