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MS DOS: A Eulogy
roadhog95 writes: "Love it or hate it, I'm sure everyone's got a love story or traumatic memory of the infamous MS-DOS. Byte magazine reports on the passing away of DOS in light of the recent Windows XP launch. Even Regis Philben stopped by to pay tribute: 'Bill... Is that your final command prompt?'"
because I'm the first! FIRST!
WARNING - Goatse.cx link redirect above... Yes, it got me, unfortunately... Ugh
I bet this is not "First Post."
What kind of crack-rock shit is that?
;)
Apparently you've not been keeping up with Sting over the last 10-15 years. Par for the course, really.
tommorrow, as everybody knows, will be halloween and you may bring your children out to go trick o' treating. however, a few precautionary measures should be made to ensure the safety of your child:
./nazis...
1. Stay away from CmdrTaco's house in Holland, MI.
2. Don't accept any candy from CmdrTaco
3. Don't accept any rides from CmdrTaco
With that in mind, you should have a fun and safe Halloween!
dead_puppy has been kickbanned by
Osen OSen OSEn OSEN
There ya go poo hed
The Nietzschean purpose of MS-DOS was to survive long enough (1981-2001) that the faint rumblings and beginnings of an artificial intelligence operating system (AI-OS) could emerge from the decaying corpus delicti where MS-DOS had gone before.
Choose your battles, is an ancient dictum. Back in 1978 at a meeting of the Northwest Computer Society here in Seattle, a call went out from the podium for anyone who would be willing to work on the newsletter of the society. Very truly yours Mentifex here shrank back, unwilling to work on anything but a Theory of Mind for AI. To the relief of all us AI and non-AI slackers, a certain historically immortal Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products spoke up and volunteered to work on the computer society newsletter. Such a quiet, unassuming fellow -- and yet Tim Patterson turned Bill G*tes into a multi-multi-billionaire, because Tim Patterson was the author of Quick-and-dirty-DOS, or QDOS, which Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer Products for fifty thousand dollars ($50K) and foisted upon the world as MS-DOS. My only real gripe about MS-DOS was the weirdness of Paul Allen in declaring that henceforth all users should use a backslash (e.g., C:\mind.html) path-separator instead of the Un*x forwards-slash separator, as in http://mind.sourceforge.net/alife.html -- the way G*d intended computers to work.
Now, are there any ankle-biters who would like to follow up here with posts about how the slowly emerging AI OS is somehow off-topic to the passing away of MS-DOS? If so, fire cowardly away.
from your mom!
F
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ROM-DOS(TM) 7.1 is Scalable, Reliable, Internet Ready
with full FAT32, long filenames and TCP/IP
support. Also has good support for embedded
systems. At least 10 million copies sold.
Size of all executables smaller than similar
binary files in MS-DOS or IBM PC-DOS.
OEMs are now able to take advantage of large disk
drives and long file names with ROM-DOS 7.1. With
as little as a 186 CPU, a small amount of RAM and flash memory or other non-volatile storage, OEMs
can create a low cost system in no time. ROM-DOS
7.1 incorporates a suite of tools, including a
compact TCP/IP stack, that are designed to
advance the embedded device market from stand-alone to Internet enabled. It has Borland-based
IDE and SDK.
Well, SOD is also a term of endearment, as in
She was only the undertakers daughter,
but she'd lie under any old sod.
Or "you stupid sod" !
Tell that to the 386's and 486's that still boot up DOS 5.0 or so and run POS, heating, lab automation, etc. software. They're everywhere, running software that either doesn't run as well (or at all) under Windows or where running the app from autoexec.bat was an integral part of the project design.
AC's cheerfully ignored
sod is an abbreviation for sodomiser also...
Why is it that this guy writes a message with a blatantly incorrect premise (that Windows XP won't have a command prompt) is corrected by several people and yet his score is much higher than those of the corrections? Slashdot isn't just a place where misunderstandings are created and perpetuated. They are even rewarded!
I got this from The Slashdot Privacy Watch. Check out their Open Letter!!!
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I just read this, it make me upset? Am I being watched?!?
Am I the only one old enough to remember the Commodore Vic20 or C64? Blew DOS out of the water. Anyone remember load "$" ,8 ,1?
My first computer ever was a Commodore Pet my uncle bought me for Christmas in 1979. I never touched an IBM compatible until 1989 (in college). Then I was wondering why I was. Then I found Linux in 1993. I was glad.
If you're not a Liberal in your 20's, then you have no heart.If you're still a Liberal in your 30's you have no brain.
C:\
C:\dos
C:\dos\run
C:\dos\run linload.exe
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
But FUCK DOS!
Troll Tuesday 2001.
--The Mess
WTF ?! Why did this get marked redundent ?! I sware to christ, if this keeps happening, I am gonna stop caring about any karma crap and post what ever is on my mind. No fscking wonder there are so many trolls these days. This is pissing me off!
And you're right, that's what provoked that rant...being marked redundant unfairly...and the last straw was when I gently corrected a factual error - someone's mention of [company A] to [company B] - and I got "-1 Overrated" down to 0, when I was only at 1 to start with.You WHAT?!(I guess that's what got my back up with that guy getting +5 for his OS list - Overrated if ever there was.)
These people should read the fscking guidelines and use their points to mod UP the good posts, not mod DOWN the bad ones (outright trolling excepted, perhaps).