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Re: MAME Content Manager Plus v1.0.9 released
09/10/15 03:50 PM
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> I was born in 1974 and I know the difference of DOS and command prompt. Yes, I'm 41
> years old...
> I started coding in BASIC around 1987 for the MSX1 computer.
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> Everything "DOS" back then meant no graphical interface.
No it didn't. Back then "DOS" meant "library of disk I/O routines" and often didn't include a UI at all. If you were lucky it might give you some extra BASIC commands for loading programs from disk, but some S100 DOSes required you to bootstrap the program some other way (maybe paper tape, front panel switches, or the machine code monitor). The command-line BASIC interfaces existed independently of the DOSes, and there were multiple DOSes for each system from different drive vendors with varying levels of (in)compatibility.
tl;dr you would've been laughed at back in the day for calling command-line interfaces in general DOS, as the term "DOS" referred to disk I/O libraries, like Apple DOS, CBM DOS, etc.
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