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DOS scarred me as a child. I remember dreaming of that blinking cursors and the horrors that lie therein. Thank goodness for more appealing user interface these days!



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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I remember it, my brother brought a new Computer with it, the games were actually pretty fun for when i was a young'n



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I remember loving DOS back in the day. I use to love it for a pretty long time too until suddenly one day at my old IT job I had to retrieve a ladies important files from her recycle bin after she deleted her windows folder (back in the 95 days you could do that) along with other important folders.

After that, I just lost my love for DOS.



Used DOS 3.20 (and did some beginner programming in GW-BASIC) on my 10 MHz IBM XT with 640 kB of RAM. And I set up a boot menu in DOS 6.22 on our 386, so that my parents could boot straight to Windows, or I could boot to specialty configurations with or without certain drivers loaded, so that I would have enough memory to play my DOS games. Ah, the days of hacking around in autoexec.bat and config.sys.

@twesterm: DOS supported undelete since at least 5.0.  :) 



I remember opening micromachines in DOS. I don't know why that memory has stuck with me.