Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 09:10:40

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: boraxman to Spectre on Fri Apr 22 2022 09:59 pm

 bo> For someone who had only realy used DOS and Windows up until 98, it was
 bo> quite a paradigm shift to see multitasking and networking on the command
 bo> line, in text mode, and the filesystem, no drive letters and long
 bo> filenames natively supported. 

 bo> Things I assumed were fundamental about PC's, weren't.

Linux was definitely a paradigm shift.
I had seen networking on the command line in DOS though, at least to some extent.  It was possible to set up DOS in an IPX/SPX network, and many DOS games supported IPX/SPX network protocols for multiplayer support.  My high school had a computer lab with some PCs that had DOS & Windows 3.1 set up on them, and I remember seeing Novell Netware network drivers for DOS when they were booting up.

Also, at some point around 1995 or 1996, I had seen a dialup internet stack for DOS..  It would let you dial into your ISP from DOS and then exit out but stay resident, and there was a text-based web browser for DOS that I had seen as well (it was similar to the Lynx web browser in Linux).  That DOS internet package may have been part of Kali, which was a piece of software mainly for games, which translated IPX/SPX networking to TCP/IP so you could play DOS multiplayer games over the internet.  (They later made a Windows 9x version of Kali too..)

Nightfox
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