DOS prompt
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I was just explaining to my Dad this afternoon why he really wouldn't want to be using DOS instead of Vista (yes, even instead of Vista) - the idea of using a browser concurrently with Excel was enough to make him accept that maybe Vista did have some good points...(yeah, he hates Vista more than most CP members - possibly even more than Christan Graus!) Just until this weekend when I upgrade him to Weven, anyway.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
So your Dad uses real DOS? Has he not upgraded his computer for a long time?
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It is a Smiley! Looked at one way it is a NO ICE-CREAM sign, and looked at the other way it is a happy wizard!
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Or until the command prompt is completely removed in favour of PowerShell.
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It is funny that I come across people who keep on referring to the command prompt as DOS prompt long after "DOS Prompt" is an history. I was on a support call and asked the customer to launch the command prompt. He replied: "Ok I have launched the DOS prompt".
What's in a name? It looks like a DOS prompt, it quacks like DOS prompt... I do most of my work in a DOS box, with DOS commands like: DIR and DEL and TYPE and EDIT, the same as I have for twenty years or more. The lack of a command line was a big part of why I never used a Mac. They can have my DOS prompt when they pry it from my cold dead hands. On the other hand, I see that they have made improvements that really should have been in DOS decades ago.
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So your Dad uses real DOS? Has he not upgraded his computer for a long time?
Noooo - he was talking about DOS as an upgrade from Vista...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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It is funny that I come across people who keep on referring to the command prompt as DOS prompt long after "DOS Prompt" is an history. I was on a support call and asked the customer to launch the command prompt. He replied: "Ok I have launched the DOS prompt".
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
come across people who keep on referring to the command prompt as DOS prompt
I be one of them too!
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It is a badge of honour for us oldies! Some of us remember DOS 3.3! (And CP/M) Getting up a blank screen with a C:\> at the bottom, and nothing else kept the muggles away from the shiny things :)
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and the clatter of the Selectric ball racing across the greenbar...
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and the clatter of the Selectric ball racing across the greenbar...
8" floppies?
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8" floppies?
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No ROM Basic. System Halted.
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No ROM Basic. System Halted.
The days of PEEK and POKE, READ and DATA, GOSUB and RETURN.
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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The days of PEEK and POKE, READ and DATA, GOSUB and RETURN.
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
new drive? g=c800:0005 ok. i'm done. :-O
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new drive? g=c800:0005 ok. i'm done. :-O
Robert Surtees wrote:
new drive? g=c800:0005
For no particular reason, I was trying to remember that the other day. I was OK up to g=c800: but couldn't remember the 0005 part.
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It is a badge of honour for us oldies! Some of us remember DOS 3.3! (And CP/M) Getting up a blank screen with a C:\> at the bottom, and nothing else kept the muggles away from the shiny things :)
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Dalek Dave wrote:
Some of us remember DOS 3.3!
I've still got the floppies for 2.1 somewhere around here. They were that new-fangled 3" size.
Jon "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Some of us remember DOS 3.3!
I've still got the floppies for 2.1 somewhere around here. They were that new-fangled 3" size.
Jon "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
I remember having all the way up to DOS 6.22 and they were all on 5.25" My dad was a terror on my sister and myself for fear of bending any of the floppies!
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It is funny that I come across people who keep on referring to the command prompt as DOS prompt long after "DOS Prompt" is an history. I was on a support call and asked the customer to launch the command prompt. He replied: "Ok I have launched the DOS prompt".
I found the DOS install floppies the other day, so I installed it into a virtual machine! :laugh: And I use FreeDOS quite a lot too (its a modern operating system that runs old DOS apps pretty much 100% OK)
If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Im so confused...
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The days of PEEK and POKE, READ and DATA, GOSUB and RETURN.
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Terminate and Stay Resident programs which were a PITA to code.... :-D and wait for it.... the three finger salute - Ctrl+Alt+Delete :laugh:
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I found the DOS install floppies the other day, so I installed it into a virtual machine! :laugh: And I use FreeDOS quite a lot too (its a modern operating system that runs old DOS apps pretty much 100% OK)
If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Im so confused...
I'll never forget my 19 yo niece's reaction once when she saw me jump onto the dos/command prompt to resolve some issue. I think she did not know such a thing existed. She started giggling away and chuckling and said "Hey, that's cool, that's really neat. It's like you're actually ... talking ... to the ... computer!"
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It is funny that I come across people who keep on referring to the command prompt as DOS prompt long after "DOS Prompt" is an history. I was on a support call and asked the customer to launch the command prompt. He replied: "Ok I have launched the DOS prompt".
Aahhhh ... takes me back to my youth. Then again, I still use the console a lot. Most developers around have no idea how to use it. The other funny thing is that there is a difference between 'Start -> Run > cmd' and 'Start -> Run -> command' The one with command start out with saying 'Microsoft(R) Windows DOS', ignoring the settings in the registry (I am one of those people who changed the console to be green on black ... because it makes me look cool :cool:);
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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What's in a name? It looks like a DOS prompt, it quacks like DOS prompt... I do most of my work in a DOS box, with DOS commands like: DIR and DEL and TYPE and EDIT, the same as I have for twenty years or more. The lack of a command line was a big part of why I never used a Mac. They can have my DOS prompt when they pry it from my cold dead hands. On the other hand, I see that they have made improvements that really should have been in DOS decades ago.
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The days of PEEK and POKE, READ and DATA, GOSUB and RETURN.
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
aah, salad days, wine and roses, a pretty girl, a peek and a poke; tears borne of days gone, and opportunities missed, sighs echoing days wasted; reassembling programs when the new operator dropped 3 boxes of cards of which it was composed.
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