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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. Re:Why does Gates get the credit ? by Anton+Anatopopov · · Score: 1, Troll
    (imagine 95% of the world running AIX!- Ahhhhh!).

    Hell or even worse - HP-UX 9...

    You have a valid point, but it is sad, isn't it to realise just how many human lives have been wasted by Microsofts bug-ridden software.

    Although Microsoft have not actually committed genocide, they must have wasted the equivalent of a few thousand lives if you count all the wasted hours spend looking at BSODs and rebooting...

  2. Damn! by Jesus+IS+the+Devil · · Score: 0, Troll

    For a minute there I thought Bill Gates died of Anthrax! That damn lucky bastard.

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