Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Going old school: MS Dos

Today I was feeling like researching up something from the past and decided to write about programming in MS Dos. To begin, MS Dos stands for Microsoft disk operating system and it was released in 1982. MS Dos uses a command line interface meaning users had to type in commands instead of being able to click commands, and versions such as Windows 3.11 used in a graphical user interface which made things easier to see for the user.

The MS Dos commands help the user so that they will be able to find out whats going on in the low level. A list of commands can be found on www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm. It supports some commands that Linux also supports such as path, batch, and chdir. It also supports its own commands such as command, break, and backup.

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