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The
10 Commandments of DOS
- I am thy DOS,
thou shall have no OS before me, unless Bill Gates
gets a cut of the profits there from.
- Thy DOS is a
character based, single user, single tasking,
standalone operating system. Thou shall not attempt
to make DOS network, multitask, or display a graphical
user interface, for that would be a gross hack.
- Thy hard disk
shall never have more than 1024 sectors. You don't
need that much space anyway.
- Thy application
program and data shall all fit in 640K of RAM.
After all, it's ten times what you had on a CP/M
machine. Keep holy this 640K of RAM, and clutter
it not with device drivers, memory managers, or
other things that might make thy computer useful.
- Thou shall use
the one true slash character to separate thy directory
path. Thou shall learn and love this character,
even though it appears on no typewriter keyboard,
and is unfamiliar. Standardization on where that
character is located on a computer keyboard is
right out.
- Thou shall edit
and shuffle the sacred lines of CONFIG.SYS and
AUTOEXEC.BAT until DOS functions adequately for
the likes of you. Giving up in disgust is not
allowed.
- Know in thy heart
that DOS shall always maintain backward compatibility
to the holy 2.0 version, blindly ignoring opportunities
to become compatible with things created in the
latter half of this century. But you can still
run WordStar 1.0.
- Improve thy memory,
for thou shall be required to remember that JD031792.LTR
is the letter that you wrote to Jane Doe four
years ago regarding the tax deductible contribution
that you made to her organization. The IRS Auditor
shall be impressed by thy memory as he stands
over you demanding proof.
- Pick carefully
the names of thy directories, for renaming them
shall be mighty difficult. While you're at it,
don't try to relocate branches of the directory
tree, either.
- Learn well the
Vulcan Nerve Pinch (ctrl-alt-del) for it shall
be thy saviour on many an occasion. Believe in
thy heart that everyone reboots their OS to solve
problems that shouldn't occur in the first place.
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