DOS prompt
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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.
SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language". Unknown
Jim (SS) wrote:
Reminds me of my green screen days writing turbo pascal and batch files.
the cool kids had amber screens :cool:
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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.
CP/M Yikes! Whoever though of PIP as a good name for copy. In my earliest life on planet computer I repaired osbourne portables. About the same size as todays desktop. Aligning floppy disk drives for the best signal is one thing I am happy not to be doing now.
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CP/M Yikes! Whoever though of PIP as a good name for copy. In my earliest life on planet computer I repaired osbourne portables. About the same size as todays desktop. Aligning floppy disk drives for the best signal is one thing I am happy not to be doing now.
I used to do that for commodore 64 floppy drives - I hated wrenching but thought the alignment part was cool. --Jason
Know way too many languages... master of none!
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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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