A friend threw this at me, he heard it on *two* talk shows, and one was a computer talk show. The computer person said XP was just an advanced DOS shell. The logic was that since you can run even old ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

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I'm going to be playing with a whole load of different shells.. I figured I'd ask to see if anyone has familiarity with shells and would know if a 4dos-like shell existed. The basic CLI is.. better ...