Subj : Re: Ms-Dos 4.0 Open-Sourced
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat May 04 2024 09:33:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni> I liked that PC software used to come with manuals, as I enjoyed
 Ni> looking through manuals to learn about the software.  One of my fond
 Ni> memories of MS-DOS (and 90s computer stuff in general) was getting a
 Ni> copy of MS-DOS 6 and looking through its manual..  It seemed like they
 Ni> really tried to make the manual easy to read and follow.  I remember
 Ni> the back (outer) page of the manual having a car navigating a street
 Ni> going in a bit of a loop..

I still have an MS-DOS 5 book somewhere...   :)

Those books were great for learning batch file programming, which took
DOS to a different level. I had a book called "Supercharging MS-DOS"
that taught me a lot about batch files - that was right when I was
running a DOS BBS and mailer. Batch files were king.

About that time, I got a job at a shop that had a Point-of-Sale system
with 100 DOS nodes and 50 or so OS/2 nodes. I was amazed at what you
could do with REXX and OS/2.

The cash registers would shut down when the store closed and the tills
were reconciled, connect to a WAN using dialup, perform a handshake,
send sales figures, receive updated PLU files, and they'd transfer mail.
There was a session password so people couldn't fake a session, and a
central nodelist so the stores knew where to call and the primary node
knew who was calling. It felt a lot like FTN, except it was damn
expensive.



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