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Now
I will try very hard not to slam
Microsoft too much on these pages, but it is difficult not to, as MS
has
tried over and over to kill my best technological friend.
When MS declared "DOS
is Dead" it made an horrendous mistake. In fact,
the mistake was really made some years earlier when the decision was
made to fold long filename support, DMA support, and big memory support
into the GUI (Windows) rather than the Command line (DOS), relegating
DOS to a short life as a boot-strap. The death knell began to toll the
day Win2k hit the market, along with it's successor WinXP. Their native
file system (NTFS) was not legible to DOS, so "The Little System that
Could" was even driven from the bootdisk market (for a little while).
Yet even though the deck has been stacked against it,
DOS just keeps on ticking along... Drivers were developed to allow DOS
to access NTFS drives. Drivers were developed to provide the Fat32 LFN
API. USB drivers were also developed. Even with all the pressure
bearing down upon it DOS just will not die.
Why, you ask?
Because it is just so dang useful. What other OS can fit easily on a
floppy and have direct access to the entire machine? Sure it is "just"
a
command line... but that is it's function. It isn't made for bouncy,
clicky things, it is made for down-and-dirty utility level work. You
would be suprised how much one can accomplish from the DOS Prompt-
nearly anything you can imagine. Especially from a utility point
of view- Drive imaging software, BIOS flashes, partition management,
file copying functions, all of these (among many others) are BETTER
accomplished from a capable DOS
than from any other system.
So without further ado I present my DOS pages, containing information
you might like to know if using DOS. The table of Contents is in the
sidebar for your perusal.
(c)
F@t Guy Utilities 2005-2006
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