Hi all.Can you please give me some examples of MS-DOS features and functions because I need to make a report about Windows XP and MS-DOS and and to tell the functions and features of both systems and also to state the differences between them.Any help will be grately appreciated.I need to finish it until tomorrow and I have no idea of any features of MS-DOS since I've never seen a PC that uses MS-DOS.
MS-DOS Features.
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The command prompt on XP isn't DOS 
So you want us to help you with your homework?
Do what everyone else does, read the Wiki page on MSDOS. Download a DOS 6.22 bootdisk from bootdisk.com, and try it for yourself. You're at school to learn, not ask the Internet for pointers...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Prompt_%28Windows%29
edit - MSDOS is not the same as what you get in an XP command prompt, they look similar but it stops there. That should kinda point you in the right direction.
Do what everyone else does, read the Wiki page on MSDOS. Download a DOS 6.22 bootdisk from bootdisk.com, and try it for yourself. You're at school to learn, not ask the Internet for pointers...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Prompt_%28Windows%29
edit - MSDOS is not the same as what you get in an XP command prompt, they look similar but it stops there. That should kinda point you in the right direction.
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Well I said that I have to finish the report until tomorrow and that means that I have to finish it tonight and I don't have the time to read all those things on wiki and then rewrite it on my report.So thats why i asked you to help me with my "homework".
and BTW tomorrow I start school at 7:30 AM and it takes me 40 minutes to get there so I'll have to get up at 6:00 and that means that I will have to go to sleep earlier so that I will be better rested.So it looks like the odds are against me.Go home at 18:30 and try to make a report for the next day about Windows XP and MS-DOS,their features,functions and differences between them all that in 4 hours.OH god my head already hurts.
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dos - cli
xp - gui
dos - very fast to boot into
xp - not so
dos - stable os
xp - not so
dos - few 100kb
xp - cd rom size ?
dos - boring
xp - pretty
dos - hardware support sucked
xp - was pretty good
dos - was used on apples before pc's
xp - was used on pc's before apples.
- I cant think of any other usless bits.
xp - gui
dos - very fast to boot into
xp - not so
dos - stable os
xp - not so
dos - few 100kb
xp - cd rom size ?
dos - boring
xp - pretty
dos - hardware support sucked
xp - was pretty good
dos - was used on apples before pc's
xp - was used on pc's before apples.
- I cant think of any other usless bits.
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You could get DOS on 5.25" floppy, (XP ... not so much), and gorilla.bas in qbasic was far, far better than all your new fangled games today 
But seriously OP, we're not here to do your homework and you can take your sob story away too .... we've all been there with homework (and if the report is supposed to have any depth in it wouldn't be overnight for the next day so when were you actually given the work to do ... )
Oh, and I need to finish writing a 20 page guide to using ZFS and Zpools on Solaris boxes by 8am tomorrow but I'm not going to be bothering the people here about it and will just be writing it whilst you are trundling you way to school tomorrow ...
But seriously OP, we're not here to do your homework and you can take your sob story away too .... we've all been there with homework (and if the report is supposed to have any depth in it wouldn't be overnight for the next day so when were you actually given the work to do ... )
Oh, and I need to finish writing a 20 page guide to using ZFS and Zpools on Solaris boxes by 8am tomorrow but I'm not going to be bothering the people here about it and will just be writing it whilst you are trundling you way to school tomorrow ...
.dos - cli But with custom ASCII interfaces of awesomeness
xp - gui Lovingly designed by FisherPrice
dos - very fast to boot into With the endless nerdy fun of echoing your own boot messages
xp - not so But brought pretty pictures to booting!
dos - stable os Unless you screwed with the wrong config file...O boy...
xp - not so But usually readily fixable from a DOS bootdisk
dos - few 100kb Which was a big resource hog
xp - cd rom size ? Which was a drop in the storage ocean.
dos - boring Unless you love Linux. In which case this is like the Godfather of terminal interfaces
xp - pretty
dos - hardware support sucked Especially if you had a Soundblaster
xp - was pretty good
dos - was used on apples before pc's Back when they were known as Macintoshs, and nobody knew what the hell a Mac or an Apple were.
xp - was used on pc's before apples.
MS-DOS: Limited to a base memory of 640k so having to load CDROM drivers was a bit of fun. All kinds of tricks such as LH (load high).
Limited to 8 characters and 3 characters for the extension (so none of this awesomememoryexpander.exe).
Erm it was on 4 floppy disks.
The rest you can research.
M.
Limited to 8 characters and 3 characters for the extension (so none of this awesomememoryexpander.exe).
Erm it was on 4 floppy disks.
The rest you can research.
M.
Well.....I didn't ask anybody to make my "homework" for me I just asked you to give me some examples of MS-DOS features and you suddenly jumped on me saying that I'm not responsible enough and stuff.I only asked for a few examples.Well so you know the report was finished and I did a very good job on it.Anyway thanks to those that gave me some examples.
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