command prompt

[master_alexander]

i broke out my old laptop from my attic and was supriseed it still worked.
i went into the command rompt and started screwing around and then searched on the internet to look for commands i could do but i didn't find annything. so could you help me out? i dot' care what it does to the computer either.

[Miscue]

Urm... look for DOS commands.

Out of curiousity, how old are you?

[BobTheCow]

Oh good god... I'm at the complete other end of the spectrum from "computer nerd," but DOS isn't really THAT old, is it?!?!?

[Miscue]

Oh good god... I'm at the complete other end of the spectrum from "computer nerd," but DOS isn't really THAT old, is it?!?!?

You know, that's what I was thinking when I asked his age.

[Target Practice]

I remember having to boot programs with DOS, and I'm pretty much completely computer inept...Hell, I still use it on the very rare occasion. VERY rare.

[BobTheCow]

You know, that's what I was thinking when I asked his age.

Yes, but you're much closer to the "computer nerd" end than I am.

[Muzikman]

Well, DOS pretty much died with Win 95, but even before then, mane people who were average computer users used the Win 3.1 /3.11 shell to do most things, so even then they were shielded from DOS. So needing to actually use DOS could date back as far as 91 or so.

You will be hard pressed to actually do something with an old DOS machine these days.

[master_alexander]

Urm... look for DOS commands.

Out of curiousity, how old are you?

i am 14 years old.

i found out about dos in this good for nothing stupid class last year called tech-ed, the only good things that came out of it were learning dos and a computer powered robot. i accidentally went into the schools mainframe database thingey (word slips my mind) and erased all of his grade files fr the day, then i found out what i was doing and quit it. i could have seriously gotted screwed that day but they never found out. horray for me i was lucky.

[Miscue]

i am 14 years old.

i found out about dos in this good for nothing stupid class last year called tech-ed, the only good things that came out of it were learning dos and a computer powered robot. i accidentally went into the schools mainframe database thingey (word slips my mind) and erased all of his grade files fr the day, then i found out what i was doing and quit it. i could have seriously gotted screwed that day but they never found out. horray for me i was lucky.

Hurm... now that I think of it, I've used DOS since before you were born. I guess DOS is old.

[master_alexander]

yeah and i just sarted up again. i am going to delete all the files on that computer, it can't even open word it's so slow.

[pbzmag]

I remember playing with DOS 3.3 on my Tandy 1000SL... with no HD!!! This was back around mid-late 80's.

[rkjunior303]

most people dont even know you can type 'command' in "run" and get a pseudo-dos prompt....

I still have a copy of Windows 286 here.

[pbzmag]

Found a link to the DOS timeline that includes Windows.

[Muzikman]

I have a Copy of PC-DOS 1.1. This was the version of DOS that came with the IBM PC in 1981.

I loved DOS. I have many fond memories of DOS. Some of my best computer experiances were in DOS. Hell, when I was in college I took an "Operating Systems" class. I was a very low level class that taught how an OS worked. They used Unix and DOS to explain it. I was correcting the instructor all the time. It came to the point where he would say something and then look at me to see if he was right. I say bring back DOS and if you really need to multi-Task, run Desqview.

[Target Practice]

Muz, you bringing up 3.1 brougt back fond memories of Skifree and Wintris. Thank you.