Happy Birthday MS-DOS

Tom|Nbk · 27 Jul 2011 at 23:32

Ah. I love Windows.

PermaBanned · 28 Jul 2011 at 00:19

dmpoole said:

I win. I wonder how many posts you could fit within another post...

digipeep · 28 Jul 2011 at 00:27

HamZilla said:
The Daddy of OS. Salute.

Hope you aren't being serious there.

MacRS4 · 28 Jul 2011 at 00:31

Berserker said:
Support may be dead, but if you have a copy, you can still use it. They didn't even bother with license keys back then.

My PC experience started with DOS 3 and Windows 1. Am I showing my age?

Wow, I've still got 2.11 somewhere (I think) from the 80186 Minolta's - yes, 80*1*86 processors. Blimey.

MacRS4 · 28 Jul 2011 at 00:32

digipeep said:
Hope you aren't being serious there.

Why not? It kick started so, so much.

Snograt · 28 Jul 2011 at 08:34

MacRS4 said:
Why not? It kick started so, so much.

Kickstart? No, that was AmigaDOS

joey1211 · 28 Jul 2011 at 08:46

"You can't even right-click anything"

But your using a mac!!!

Yes, I know it's now possible

Hagar · 28 Jul 2011 at 09:15

Still use msdos 5 who needs a rodent.

andy

EdwardTeach · 28 Jul 2011 at 09:39

I was an amiga owner, so my first windows was 3.1 iirc. I still remember faffing around in dos for some games, and we certainly used it at school.

I can't even remember the basics now, for example how do you get to the root directory? E.g in dos how would you go from c:\users\name\my documents to c: or from c: to d:?

gillywibble · 28 Jul 2011 at 10:02

EdwardTeach said:
I can't even remember the basics now, for example how do you get to the root directory? E.g in dos how would you go from c:\users\name\my documents to c: or from c: to d:?

cd\\

cd d:

IIRC

Been a while.

tres · 28 Jul 2011 at 10:27

I remember becoming a pro at MSDOS because I messed up Windows at a very early age, had no one to fix it and therefore resorted to learning to do everything I needed via dos!

Cosimo · 28 Jul 2011 at 10:45

Still has useful commands:

IPCONFIG is another.

If you've not looked before type in HELP at the prompt to get a list of the most common commands.

robgmun · 28 Jul 2011 at 11:11

EdwardTeach said:
I was an amiga owner, so my first windows was 3.1 iirc. I still remember faffing around in dos for some games, and we certainly used it at school.

I can't even remember the basics now, for example how do you get to the root directory? E.g in dos how would you go from c:\users\name\my documents to c: or from c: to d:?

It's like riding a bike, you never really forget

LordSplodge · 28 Jul 2011 at 11:13

HamZilla said:
The Daddy of OS. Salute.

Erm, UNIX called and it would like a word with you.

NathanE · 28 Jul 2011 at 11:23

simulatorman said:
Still has useful commands:

IPCONFIG is another.

If you've not looked before type in HELP at the prompt to get a list of the most common commands.

That's the Windows CLI. It isn't DOS.

Vista and W7 don't contain a DOS emulator. Nor did XP x64.

MacRS4 · 28 Jul 2011 at 11:36

gillywibble said:
cd\\

cd d:

IIRC

Been a while.

Nearly:

CD \

D:

loltim · 28 Jul 2011 at 11:46

er, that's not dos simulatorman

Kainz · 28 Jul 2011 at 13:11

Dos simply rocked. Doskey = My fav all time program, and MSCDEX.exe = the worst pos/pita ever.

fidget · 28 Jul 2011 at 13:36

I remember having to issue the "park" command on my first PC when powering down - the days before hard drives had self parking heads

Werewolf · 28 Jul 2011 at 13:45

I remember the park command on IBM PS series machines

Come to think of it, I remember the size of a 20mb IBM PS2 series hard drive, that was a big beastie for a "personal" computer.
They were 5.25" FULL height, all standard PC CD drives are half height for those that need a comparison.