DOS prompt
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Terminate and Stay Resident programs which were a PITA to code.... :-D and wait for it.... the three finger salute - Ctrl+Alt+Delete :laugh:
#define STOOPID #if STOOPID Console.WriteLine("I'm stoopid!"); #endif
It wasnt many months of PC usage when I already managed to Ctrl+Alt+Del using only my right hand because most of the time my left hand was occupied in holding phone (wired phone, you know those old clunky ones wih rolling number interface instead of buttons, hehe). Those days take me into what I am about to babble about, which is (surprisingly) not offtopic. I was already been a SysOp for some time when OS/2 Warp was introduced and we made the decision to move into using it in our BBS. I cant even remember what its prompt was called, was it "OS/2 Prompt"? Still I allways thought of it as "DOS prompt"... but nowadays (as I dont treasure badges of honors) I just refer to those as "prompt" or "console"... depends on how I feel. (usually using "console" is to annoy some other people who seem to fail in understanding my meaning because they want to argue about the word used which ultimately reveals they actually did understand what I meant in saying "No you cant call prompt a console".) Some users who dont know computers so well refer to it as "that black box" which is allways kind of cute, thinking "prompt = blackbox" :)
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The days of PEEK and POKE, READ and DATA, GOSUB and RETURN.
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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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.
One of my most used DOS prompt functions I use is Attrib. Using the correct parameters with the redirect (>) sign and a file names gives me a quick listing of directory contents. Then there are the various PF Keys to make the prompt more useful: F1 retypes the previous command one character at a time F2 brings up a dialog and asks “Enter the char to copy up to:” F3 retypes the last command in full F4 brings up a dialog and asks “Enter char to delete up to:” F5 as for F3 F6 Print EOF character (Ctrl+Z) F7 brings up a dialog of all the recent command history F8 brings up each of the most recent commands, one at a time F9 brings up a dialog and asks “Enter command number:” Hooray for DOS!!!!! Jeff
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Terminate and Stay Resident programs which were a PITA to code.... :-D and wait for it.... the three finger salute - Ctrl+Alt+Delete :laugh:
#define STOOPID #if STOOPID Console.WriteLine("I'm stoopid!"); #endif
the trick was to hit ctrl+alt+del with one hand while on the phone... if you got big hands, you could just about do it.. Oddly enough these days I find myself reaching for the power switch more in Windows than Ctrl+Alt+Del, if windows gets its pants really in a twist, Ctrl+Alt+Del just makes it worse!
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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!"
You should have said that the matrix is real and they made a film about it to make people think such a thing is silly and would not exist :-D Or that you was using The Force :-D
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... FreeDOS - An open source modern MS-DOS/PC-DOS replacement.
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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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One teacher at school asked us to hand in an assignment on a disc, now, all the other kids had fancy computers with those 3" drives, I however was stuck with one of those 5" critters. So anyways, I stuck my assignment (In a .txt file!) onto it from windows 3.1 and took it into him, he said "Thanks Chris" and then proceeded to fold it in half, then in half again, and stick it in the box with the 3" floppies... When he complained that it didn't work I said "Well, I'll make you another copy but this time don't break it" and he said "I didn't break the last one" I gave the copy to his supervising teacher. -Kasterborus
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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".
Did anyone use 4Dos? If you did then you will like TCC/LE from JP Software. If you didn't then I think you will find it to be a good cmd.exe replacement.
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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:);
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Heh! I am a terror for using those green on black :-D (using ANSI.SYS and escape sequences - but prior to that I had the old Hercules monitor that displayed awesome graphics but required specialized Hercules drivers....and didn't even require escape sequences....) ... ahhhh memories.... :) I still do on my linux vbox when I SSH into it, it's green on black!!!! :D Thanks to the original poster for bringing up this thread... :-\
#define STOOPID #if STOOPID Console.WriteLine("I'm stoopid!"); #endif
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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 think it's still valid to call it DOS prompt. Whether we like it or not, Windows is still very much rooted in DOS. The shell commands are still the same, we still have to use the stupid C:, D:. If you want to see just how much DOS is still around, just type "dir /x" in the "DOS Prompt".
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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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Floor sort! :laugh: I helped a blind guy do a 'floor sort' once in college; he was in my data structures class. Fortunately, he numbered his cards (columns 73-80).
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The days of PEEK and POKE, READ and DATA, GOSUB and RETURN.
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load "game",8,1
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new drive? g=c800:0005 ok. i'm done. :-O
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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".
It still feels like DOS, and I like it that way. The thing I miss is the help command, which got me started on the first programming experience I had. By the age of 14 I built a game menu using the help command and the .bat file. I also wonder if anyone remembers the PathMinder. It brings me memories...
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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! (And CP/M)
Think you're an Oldie? How 'bout PC DOS 1.1? PDP-11 O/S, RSTS-E, RSX/11M, Cyber74, IBM OS 360. -CB :D
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Terminate and Stay Resident programs which were a PITA to code.... :-D and wait for it.... the three finger salute - Ctrl+Alt+Delete :laugh:
#define STOOPID #if STOOPID Console.WriteLine("I'm stoopid!"); #endif
TSR's were a bit of a pain, but it was a lot of FUN too. I used to love the power of writing in MASM. Now THAT was programming. -CB ;)
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Floor sort! :laugh: I helped a blind guy do a 'floor sort' once in college; he was in my data structures class. Fortunately, he numbered his cards (columns 73-80).
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It wasnt many months of PC usage when I already managed to Ctrl+Alt+Del using only my right hand because most of the time my left hand was occupied in holding phone (wired phone, you know those old clunky ones wih rolling number interface instead of buttons, hehe). Those days take me into what I am about to babble about, which is (surprisingly) not offtopic. I was already been a SysOp for some time when OS/2 Warp was introduced and we made the decision to move into using it in our BBS. I cant even remember what its prompt was called, was it "OS/2 Prompt"? Still I allways thought of it as "DOS prompt"... but nowadays (as I dont treasure badges of honors) I just refer to those as "prompt" or "console"... depends on how I feel. (usually using "console" is to annoy some other people who seem to fail in understanding my meaning because they want to argue about the word used which ultimately reveals they actually did understand what I meant in saying "No you cant call prompt a console".) Some users who dont know computers so well refer to it as "that black box" which is allways kind of cute, thinking "prompt = blackbox" :)
lol Whenever I have to ask a user to open the command prompt I always ask them "Do you see a black box?" They always know what I mean, but asking if they see a black window, or a window with a black background they often get confused. Another way to describe it is to ask if they see the blinking line. CP/M was my first operating system as a kid, on a kaypro II with dual builtin floppies and 64k memory. We were high tech man!:cool: In my mind it will always be the dos prompt even if I don't call it that out loud.
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Ahh, but have you ever had to multi-punch a shredded card from the middle of an card deck that was in object code? al
Fortunately, no. I did however work on a project where we assembled code on an Intel development system, copied the object files to tape on a Silent 700 terminal, rolled the terminal over to the test bench, and then uploaded the code from the terminal to the machine we were developing. The ROM monitor in the machine could record patches back onto the Silent 700 tape. At one point, we had more patches on the tape than we had code assembled by the Intel box. At least with your punched cards you could see the bits :rolleyes:.
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lol Whenever I have to ask a user to open the command prompt I always ask them "Do you see a black box?" They always know what I mean, but asking if they see a black window, or a window with a black background they often get confused. Another way to describe it is to ask if they see the blinking line. CP/M was my first operating system as a kid, on a kaypro II with dual builtin floppies and 64k memory. We were high tech man!:cool: In my mind it will always be the dos prompt even if I don't call it that out loud.
I have my computer setup so when the command line (CMD) comes up it has a black background and green letters. Reminds me of my green screen days writing turbo pascal and batch files.
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lol Whenever I have to ask a user to open the command prompt I always ask them "Do you see a black box?" They always know what I mean, but asking if they see a black window, or a window with a black background they often get confused. Another way to describe it is to ask if they see the blinking line. CP/M was my first operating system as a kid, on a kaypro II with dual builtin floppies and 64k memory. We were high tech man!:cool: In my mind it will always be the dos prompt even if I don't call it that out loud.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein. To bad I have to do that with one of my bosses.....Click start, click run, type in cmd I have to spell it out like cat mouse dog Then it says windows cannot find. Then I have him read it back to me, he had actually put in catmousedog. Sad. Then I had ilikeicecreamplikepotatoconfig haha. People are funny.
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