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MS DOS: A Eulogy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the alas-we-knew-ye-all-too-well dept.

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?'"

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  1. It's funny... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Redundant

    how Macs now finally have a command prompt (in OS X), but XP has lost it now?

    Mac users users used to be the object of derision for their lack of command prompt. Now XP users will be.
    There's some cosmic karma in there somewhere.

  2. Dancing on its grave! by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It's gone! At last! Only 30 years too late; oh- wait it was only 20 years old- no I was right the first time.

    What kind of insane, broken, user hostile, program hostile, PC hostile world did we live in that forced users to use that broken down 640k limited, single tasking, interrupt restricted pile of junk?

    Why, when decent OSs had been around for 20 years did Microsoft see fit to impose that pile on the computing public? What unbelieveable sin meant that was what we needed?

    Good riddance MSDOG! You will be remembered; but not forgiven ;-)

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    -WolfWithoutAClause

    "Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"