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The revolution begins...
hm_murdock:
quote:Yes, sorry, the command line does have it's place.
This is a main criticism I have with NT and Windows in general.
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I don't. I used the classic Mac OS for years and never needed a command line. It has none at all. Classic Mac OS can't boot without a video adaptor.
quote:All versions before Win95 used the DOS kernel to allocate memory. Win95 provided DPMI which slowed things down a lot, they should have just rewritten DOS to be 32bit.
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No they shouldn't have. And Windows/386 did not use DOS for memory management.
quote:Also every new feature was always implemented in Windows and never in DOS, if the just added it to the DOS that Windows runs on, it would be a lot better. They used separate drivers for dos and windows, if dos was 32bit the same drivers could be used.
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When Win95 was released, you didn't need DOS drivers unless you specifically intended to use DOS on its own. The DOS box in Windows would use Windows drivers for everything.
quote:NT should also have a DOS like commandline without the need to load the GUI.
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Recovery console. Included with 2000, XP, and Server 2003.
quote:MS should have never ditched DOS completely, they should have just made it unnecessary for normal people to know it.
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I fully disagree. DOS was a crutch. It was seriously holding the software back. Look at the difference in Windows Me and Windows 2000. They're very similar, save for Windows Me is built on the Win95 kernel, and 2000 runs on NT.
quote:The same should happen in Linux!
The command line should be there just in case the GUI goes down, and for vary rare ocasions where it is more efficient to use the command line.
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You mean kinda the way it is?
WMD:
quote:Recovery console. Included with 2000, XP, and Server 2003.
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That mode doesn't run multiuser, or network, or anything else. It's like "linux -s".
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
You mean kinda the way it is?
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I think he means that all settings should be don from a GUI (= a very bad idea and not how UNIX-like systems work)
hm_murdock:
quote:That mode doesn't run multiuser, or network, or anything else. It's like "linux -s".
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very good point.
I thought Server 2K3 added "Recovery Console with Network"
quote:I think he means that all settings should be don from a GUI (= a very bad idea and not how UNIX-like systems work)
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It always worked for NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and OS X.
but, I do agree... and GenSTEP will be fully open to the console. there should be console versions of all hardware configuration for UNIX, since you could do something like change a graphics setting in X11 and render it useless... if you don't know how to edit the config file, then you should have a good way to change these settings
KernelPanic:
Jimmy you didn't answer my question. I hate you.
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