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[Saphire]

QUOTE(Guest @ Nov 26 2006, 03:24 PM) [snapback]268783[/snapback]

Thanks..... PS.. Did someone help you with DOS or are you self taught??[/b]

Well my boyfriend helped me first from times to times with this and that, but later I mostly had to inform myself. There was this help.com that came with Ms-Dos that listed all Ms-Dos associated programs and commans and their options which helped me a lot, and much trial and error was needed also, for example to get Ultima 8 to run with the new Soundblaster 16 :P
Dos is just not like Windows, it's more simple but requires you to do much more "dirty work" yourself, when you're working with Dos you're more directly engaged with the software, hardware and the output before you than it's the case in Windows that takes much work off you by doing things automatically and often hidden, producing only the result of work done.

In a way the experience to work with Ms-Dos was something unique that's missed for the newcomers today who start off with Windows, I think. They (and they are many I noticed) have it easy from the beginning on and get used to it being easy, thus they know not even 10% of their own PC as Windows takes care of it all. Ms-Dos is different, it's there to steer your computer but it takes only minimal work off you. You need to do everything yourself for it to run well and smoothly and you have also fortunately more control of your PC than in Windows. Go figure.
I think I'll try Linux one day to see if it's really so much better than Windows like people say :P