Author Topic: Do you remember MS-DOS 1981 & 1994 version? Do you still use such commands?  (Read 1806 times)

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Offline polonus

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Going back in time: https://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm   (link source Computer Hope)

I remember it from the days around the turn of the century, when I studied Microsoft NT4 server and the kernel.
In in our country hospitals and the transport sector had to roll out NT4 and MS offered official training.
Most of the then students were linux admins with years and years of experience.

I learned a lot during that frantic course, the certificate still hangs on the wall,
and I now wonder who of you still use the odd MS-DOS command from time to time,
like netstat -an given in from the command prompt for instance....

Anyone?

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« Last Edit: August 01, 2017, 11:15:10 PM by polonus »
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I remember MS DOS and DR DOS, but absolutely years of no use you soon forget most of it.

Whilst there are some commands people use that they don't associate with DOS :)

One such command that the above link chkdsk, still used by many but not really associated with being MSDOS.
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Rarely anymore, except maybe to register/unregister an unruly .dll.

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Haven't used it directly for a while, but still have the manual for DOS 6 ! Sad or what..
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I got very good with up to MS-DOS 5.0 in early 1999 because the product on which I worked still used that.  But, then I changed jobs and there was no use for MS-DOS there.  Instead now the focus was on learning and using Windows 98.

I have not touched MS-DOS since and consequently, I have probably forgotten 90% of what I used to know.
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