Re: Anyone Still like DOS?
 

Luckily I skipped over that version of Windows. =whew=

I started assembler programming with Debug.com, and explored the computer memory and boot stuff using it. Debugging .com files was fun; the .exe files not as much, until I realized it wasn't quite what it was made for....

(Y'know, what is the OS those movies use? Neither PC nor Mac.)

Re: Anyone Still like DOS?
 

I believe most of them use UNIX.

Re: Anyone Still like DOS?
 

You'd be surprised at how many of their operating systems are actually just re-skinned versions of Mac OS X or Windows XP; and generally it seems like it's split pretty evenly between Mac (especially if they're using laptops) and Windows (mostly when they are using desktops).

Re: Anyone Still like DOS?
 

Call me old school but I use the DOS command prompt within Windows just about everyday for something or other. Growing up on good old Unix and DOS command lines there are many file management operations I can just do faster or easier at a command line than in Windows Explorer, etc.

Have a directory of thousands of data files written and named automatically by date & time? Want to make a text file with a list of just the filenames of type XYZ that were written on day 10? Nothing beats a quick command line command:

C:\somedirectory>dir -b *10.XYZ > Filelist.txt

Have several text files you just want to concatinate into one big text file:

C:\somedirectory>copy file1.txt + file2.txt + file3.txt > Bigfile.txt

Command line operating systems may be old but are still very useful. Learn to use file redirection (>, <, |) and it will help you more than you can imagine.

Re: Anyone Still like DOS?
 

Actually, there is programming software in which you can make use of the built in speakers in the hard drive. It's called QBASIC, and is a compressed, freeware version of BASIC. The Q stands for Quick.

Re: Anyone Still like DOS?
 

I believe the CTU agents on 24 (or any of the computers for that matter) used Linux. Saw it on some behind-the-scenes thing.

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I don't use DOS, but I have DOSbox (a DOS game emulator) and Tyrian 2000. The game is AWESOME and it has excellent graphics and music. :D

Re: Anyone Still like DOS?
 

I may be showing my age, but back then the only game in town was DOS. Anyone need a copy of DOS 2.0? How about Norton Commander, a pre-Windows-3.0 navigation aid?

I still use several machines running DOS 6.22 for some specialized applications (including my home-built CNC PC Board drilling machine) and I can confirm that it just screams on a Pentium...

Don

Re: Anyone Still like DOS?
 

Heh. A couple of years ago I had an engineer friend (mechanical/HVAC) come to me with some 5-1/4" floppies he had files on that he wanted. I had to use my TIPC (DOS 2.1) to convert them to old style 3.5" floppies, then a second computer (Windows 3.1) to convert the 3.5" floppies to the newer type, then my (current at the time) desktop (Windows 98) to email the files back.