Day Brown wrote:
>
> > When I upgraded from the Commodore 64 to DOS, the learning
> > curve was steep because DOS made me use stupid new commands
> > instead of the tried-and-true Commodore commands. Why oh
> > why wasn't DOS more user-friendly?
> Right, and it took me years to get to know it, and now
> the nix guys are all saying to throw that away
Oops, I should have put <sarcasm> </sarcasm> around my
comments. Sure, it would have been nice if DOS had used
Commodore commands, but only a raving lunatic would
criticize DOS on that basis.
It took me years to get to know the Commodore and I threw
it away to become a DOS newbie. Then I spent years getting
to know DOS and threw that away to become a Linux newbie.
Was it frustrating? Yes. Was it time-consuming? Yes.
Was it a humiliating? Yes. Was it a mistake? No.
It's called progress. Blacksmiths throw away their old
skills and retrain as automobile mechanics. People throw
away their old LPs and replace them with CDs. Surgeons
throw away their old techniques and learn how to do
"key hole" surgery.
Certainly, it's easier for the young to throw away old
things and embrace the new. But IMHO us older folk should
also be open to new things. Otherwise, we risk becoming
pedantic old farts.
> I have the dos hd as slave, and the cmos set to boot
> off A:, with a floppy with dos 'boothru' in it. with
> the floppy out, it boots on the drake master. with the
> floppy in, it boots to the dos drive it can see.
If you put the DOS drive on master and the Linux one on
slave, your system will boot in DOS. You can then use
LOADLIN.EXE to boot Linux (from a config.sys menu).
> It dont waste time loading os stuff it aint gonna use.
It will be *much* faster booting DOS from the harddrive
than from the floppy. Booting Linux via DOS will take
slightly longer than the MBR boot -- 15 seconds?
> A little inconvenient when I wanna transfer a file
> from one drive to the other, putting it on the floppy,
You should be able to transfer files by running Linux
and mounting the DOS drive.
> > > I hate to admit it, but I put DOS aliases in
> > > BasicLinux for people just like you. Enjoy.
> I havnt used basic since the 8088; I found Ralf Brown
> for that damn little that wasnt already written and
> available on the BBSes to do anything I wanted.
Oops, again. I never realized that when I called my
mini-Linux "BasicLinux" that anyone would associate it
with the Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Information Code.
I was really thinking of Basic English (that 850-word
mini-language designed as an introductory English).
Cheers,
Steven
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