[HN Gopher] DOS on DOPE
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       DOS on DOPE
        
       Author : 6581
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2022-09-25 10:02 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | jordemort wrote:
       | Holding out for GEM on GHB
        
       | skissane wrote:
       | The author of this appears to be afflicted with the common
       | confusion that the Windows CLI environment (console subsystem,
       | CMD.EXE, etc) is "DOS".
        
         | samrolken wrote:
         | When I saw that some of the glue code is in C#, I was
         | momentarily excited to learn more about compiling C# to be able
         | to run on DOS.
        
           | kej wrote:
           | That's a thing, too: https://hackaday.com/2020/02/09/c-the-
           | language-for-all-platf...
        
         | benj111 wrote:
         | Because Does on Dope is catchier than CMD.exe on Coke?
        
           | garethrowlands wrote:
           | Or posh on poke I guess.
        
           | Kwpolska wrote:
           | Or, keeping with the RoR theme, "The Trainwreck also known as
           | CMD.exe off the Rails" (TTakaCotR)?
        
           | spookie wrote:
           | CMD.exe on coke is pretty dope ngl
        
             | jbverschoor wrote:
             | Play Commander Coke against the aliens
        
           | LeonB wrote:
           | Bingo
        
         | TazeTSchnitzel wrote:
         | It makes sense considering that in non-NT Windows, it was a
         | full DOS virtual machine, and while NT's cmd.exe is not DOS,
         | 32-bit versions could still run DOS apps via NTVDM (also a
         | virtual machine).
        
         | throw827474737 wrote:
         | He sure knows better, and tbh, today this is the apparent
         | ""relict"" remaining from the MS-DOS times so it can be well
         | called like this for a project title, but thanks for the
         | nitpick!
        
           | chungy wrote:
           | Even without opening the command prompt, the mere presence of
           | drive letters are a particularly embarrassing relict from MS-
           | DOS.
        
       | mikotodomo wrote:
       | Batch scripts are really bad for web dev. IFL your company would
       | go broke if they used this.
        
         | b1ue64 wrote:
         | It's a joke. Don't overthink it.
        
           | snvzz wrote:
           | Definitely still better than code I've seen in production.
        
       | BirAdam wrote:
       | Lol. The website has some wonderful info:
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       | What about security?
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       | If you can't trust public visitors from the internet, who can you
       | trust? Executing user input as commands inside the operating
       | system is the most direct way to get things done, and that's what
       | matters most.
       | 
       | Does it scale?
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       | So far I haven't run into any performance problems. Whenever I've
       | opened up a DoD website to several users, my hard drive tends to
       | get wiped long before I discover performance issues.
        
       | joshka wrote:
       | https://secretgeek.net/dod_intro is a better link on this. Also
       | (2010)
        
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