DOS ain't dead

when DOS is not DOS (Miscellaneous)

posted by mikegonta, 14.06.2015, 19:56

glennmcc wrote:

> Was I wrong all these years in thinking that IO.SYS/MSDOS.SYS in earlier
> versions of MSDOS and later simply IO.SYS _were_ actually the OS
> and that COMMAND.COM was simply the command interpreter ?

Apparently you were/are absolutely right. The vast majority of people believe that the operating system is it's User Interface. Delete command.com, boot DOS and see what happens - nothing. Ask your friends what they think of that Operating System.

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Mike Gonta
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Complete thread:

• when DOS is not DOS - mikegonta, 14.06.2015, 15:02 (Miscellaneous)
  • when DOS is not DOS - glennmcc, 14.06.2015, 19:42
    • when DOS is not DOS - mikegonta, 14.06.2015, 19:56
  • when DOS is not DOS - 0ffer, 16.06.2015, 16:50
  • when DOS is not DOS - mikegonta, 17.06.2015, 13:41