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Next-gen Windows Command Line Shell Now in Beta

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the shelling-out-for-a-new-command-line dept.

Suddenly_Dead writes "Microsoft's new command line shell, MSH or Monad, has entered the beta phase. Channel9 Wiki has information on how to download this (complete with Guest ID), and other related info."

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  1. Next step... by michelcultivo · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...is copy the kernel from *nix. On this world nothing is created, but all copied.

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  2. Re:Or you could just download the release-quality by nberardi · · Score: 1, Troll

    Not really based off the same ideas and comcepts. You should really try reading the wiki to better understand what Monad is about. Instead of building scrips through Perl or Python or whatever you use this is going to be centered around building "scripts" in .NET. I would encourage you to look more into this before you start opening your big mouth and downplaying something you know nothing about.

  3. Another screen shot by Skiron · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here's another Screenshot: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\> cd /mnt/dvd C:\> ERROR. You do not have the rights to that as I see you haven't paid $750.00 or even got an ID card. C:\> Please run 'communist reporting tool' to fix this forever.

  4. Please try Monad out by jsnover · · Score: 0, Troll

    I encourage you all to download the beta and let us know how we are doing, what we got wrong and where we can do better. I really would appreciate the feedback from this community as *NIX has done a wonderful job in this area from the beginning. (Though to be fair, VMS DCL and AD400 CL did good jobs as well). The command line shell is clearly an area that we (MSFT) have opportunities to improve.

  5. The Longtooth Post, Streamlined Edition by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Troll
    The Longtooth Post can now be found on its own web site, due to popular demand. Here is the portion relevant to this story:

    Microsauft will address the security problem through a variety of changes to the Longtooth codebase. First, as I mentioned in the past, Longtooth will no longer be based on the NT design philosophy, as were previous versions. Instead, Microsauft plans to release DOS 9.0 2003, an 8-bit multithreaded DOS written in VB Server.NOT. Longtooth will run somewhere on top of that, above several hundred layers of abstraction and a thunking mechanism to convert 64-bit calls to 32-bit calls to 16-bit calls to 8-bit calls to 4-bit calls and then back to the 8-bit calls required by DOS 9.0 2003. The DOS syntax will be completely changed into a format significantly more complicated than the bash, csh, sed, awk, perl, m4, and makefile formats used in Linux and UNIX operating systems. These changes will add significant complexity to the command line, providing Microsauft a basis to claim that the Longtooth command line is more powerful than its Linux counterparts. It will also intimidate most users, giving Microsauft ample reasons to tout its Microsauft User Simplicity and Security Manager 2003 as the most innovative thing since sliced cucumber.

    As an example of the new syntax, suppose you wish to view the contents of a directory. In the old DOS, you would use the terse and ineffective "DIR" command. With Longtooth, you will be able to use the much more capable command, "DIR-print (sed /e:++ : a--$ C$$ awk | lesstif (+, +, +, +) at 0900+W+ $ while (w--- O- M+ V-- S++$) { P++>$ x++ }) >>display | formatTabulated".

  6. you know it sucks when... by popra · · Score: 0, Troll
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