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Originally Posted by Dan Goodale
Quoth, MS DOS was released in 1982. I used it. I also used ALL the other DOS versions AND wrote the deltree command used by Microsoft. Just because you grew up using a mouse and a keyboard doesn't mean the other software didn't exist. Lastly, correcting someone's use of a word inaccurately just shows you're a poser because those of us who actually KNOW all this stuff wouldn't bother to correct anything as trivial as a DOS BOX. Since you don't understand them you probably shouldn't use my tools.
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Big assumptions. I used CP/M and then CP/M 86 and MS DOS from 1981 on an ACT Sirus 1 (USA Victor 9000) before IBM PC was sold on the island of Ireland. I wrote a combo platform-point&click engine in Modula-2 for DOS, among other things, with support for Hercules, CGA, EGA and VGA using Modula-2 Graphics drivers I wrote from scratch.
Correct names matter. It's NOTHING to do with DOS. Console commands or Command Line options.
DosBox is an emulator I've used for over 10 years on NT, Symbian and Linux also now on Android. I'm not being picky, you are being careless and fragile.
I'm happy for people to call a directory a folder. Sometimes real DOS commands are still used. Mostly in the DOSbox emulator. Not in a Win10, Linux or Mac Console.
The correct terminology is important because actual DOS commands and programs are still in use.