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Re: MAME Content Manager Plus v1.0.9 released
09/11/15 01:36 AM
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> I'm an oldster - growing up when the first PC's were hitting the market. While > "Command Prompt" or "Command line" has taken over now as preferred terms, back in the > day - prior to GUI's - we all knew it as plain old DOS. DOS was the operating system, > just as today we'd consider Windows 10 the Operating System.
That's very PC-centric. Before there were PCs there were DOSes, and they weren't complete operating systems as we know them today.
> I don't recall anyone referring to DOS solely in the context of disk commands, > because let's face it, it's always done a whole lot more.
Only on the IBM PC. This was definitely not the case on 8-bit home computers that many board members here grew up with, or S100 professional computers.
> I agree with others, this is a strange debate. First there was DOS, then there were > GUI's, which initially were little more than ways of making DOS really really slow. > > DOS of course means Disk Operating System, but as I said, it did everything else too.
Once again, only if you pretend computer history began with the IBM PC. And if that's what you're going to do, you can't claim to be old, kiddo.
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