MS-DOS is 30 years old today
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MS-DOS is 30 years old today
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#2C:/Dos
C:/Dos/Run
Run/Dos/Run
Happy birthday Dos. I still remember learning you to play Commander Keen, when I was 5.
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#3C:/Dos C:/Dos/Run Run/Dos/Run Happy birthday Dos. I still remember learning you to play Commander Keen, when I was 5.
You mean C:\Dos ? ;)
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#5To celebrate, I'll buy the first round of drive letters and back-slashes.
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#6Congrats MS-DOS!
I may not remember correctly, but wasn't it that MS-DOS 4.0 was replaced by 4.01 two days later or so?
Also, typo below the MS-DOS 2.0 picture: It should be 5 1/4" (the floppy with the half one was 3 1/2").
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#7Sweet DOS memories. I could probably still remember how to write CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files that wring out every possible byte of <640K memory so that Ultima VII would run. (This game had a home-grown memory manager which required an obscene ~620K of so-called "real" memory while also requiring certain drivers that ate into that real memory, making it difficult to run the game without manually customizing the DOS startup command files.)
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#9My first encounter with viri. The waterfall virus and michelangelo.
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#10Congrats MS-DOS! I may not remember correctly, but wasn't it that MS-DOS 4.0 was replaced by 4.01 two days later or so? Also, typo below the MS-DOS 2.0 picture: It should be 5 1/4" (the floppy with the half one was 3 1/2").
Yea, the problem was the original 4.0 release was buggy.