Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory?      Help?     Calling MS-Dos?
To   : R.A.G. Seely
From : Rolf Jentsch
Date : Mon Feb 04 2002 09:22 am

From: Rolf.Jentsch@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Rolf Jentsch)
Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory?      Help?     Calling MS-Dos?

From: email@rolfjentsch.de (Rolf Jentsch)

rags__A@T__math.mcgill.ca.invalid meinte am 03.02.02 zum Thema "Re: Copy to
file or directory?      Help?     Calling MS-Dos?":

> I also indicated in a previous post that right from the start MicroSoft has
> been clearly of the opinion that command.com is not part of the OS which we
> now call MS-DOS, as evidenced by its documentation of the first publically
> available version.
not personally but:

I think most of you mix the terms "operating system" and "command line
interface".

The OS formed by the two sys files makes the system operable. If you want to
interact with it you may need command.com as an command line interface. This
could be done with the rom based basic of early IBM PC's as well (at least if
they had disc basic). No need for command.com.

By now perspectives may have changed, because there is hardly any pc today.
AAMOF we are all running at least AT's (ok few of you may still have those
musem artefacts (I still have my pet 2001)). But the fact remains that the
system is perfectly operatable if there is not a thing that functions like
command.com is present. I have to admit that you have to tell this fact to the
OS in order to keep it running.


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