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Oh yes an old nerd thread (someplace I could enjoy being a youngster  ) |
I am officially an Old Phart these days, though I'd like to think I maintain a youthful outlook.
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Dennis, nicely summed up dos history for those who came after us, although I admit I had no idea about unices back then and that there was a unixoid DOS shell replacement is completely new to me.
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There were actually several, including DOS implementations of the Bourne and C shells. I collected an assortment. The MKS Toolkit simply offered the most complete and polished solution for the PC. Aside from the Korn shell, there was a full version of the vi editor and a few other things. I was able to use the DOS PRINT command with some Korn shell aliases to craft a decent approximation of the Unix lp print spooler.
(MKS no longer exists as such, but the Toolkit became the basis for Interix, which underlay Microsoft Services for Unix package.)
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I was 12 when I came to computing (386-SX 16; 1 MB RAM; 40 MB HDD; VGA and a 24 dot matrix printer)
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I was over twice that.
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I began with DR-DOS 5.0 (OS/2 thereafter), so my first shock was after I had to switch to MS-DOS 5 was to discover there was no xdel (or similar) command... MS' deltree came with 6.
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The first computer I dealt with was an IBM mainframe compatible at a bank I've mentioned elsewhere. It was the days when the original IBM-PC running DOS 2.1 was appearing on corporate desktops as an engine to run the Lotus 1,2,3 spreadsheet. I watched bank officers write memos as Lotus text fields because they knew how to use it but didn't know how to use a word processor or have one installed on their machine.
IIRC, DR-DOS originated from requests by DR customers for a version of DOS that could be embedded in ROM. MSDOS couldn't back then - to be ROMmable, the code and data segments needed to be separate, and weren't in MSDOS. When it got to a reasonable state of development, DR decided to release it as a commercial product and alternative to MSDOS, and it gained a reasonable following.
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Dennis