re: Question about 'Load DosKey in a DOS box automatically'
Friday, February 4, 2005 at 7:45 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matthew D. Healy
(1255 messages posted)
Welcome to the wonderful world of software history!
Windows XP represents the convergence of two
different histories. For over a decade, Microsoft
maintained two independent operating systems,
the consumer systems Win1.x-Win3.x, Win95,
Win98, WinMe
and the corporate systems WfW, WinNT1, WinNT2,
WinNT3.x, Win2K, etc.
The NT-derived systems were more powerful, stable,
and secure but also less compatible with oddball
hardware and many applications. The consumer
systems were much more compatible and
user-friendly -- setting up networking on NT3.x
was a ROYAL PAIN -- but also the consumer versions
were much less stable.
Of course, this led to a lot of wasted programming
effort for Microsoft maintaing two platforms. It also
led to a lot of wasted testing effort among developers
who had to test their stuff on both platforms.
For some years, Microsoft had the goal of joining
these two different streams of code, and XP
represents the result. Not perfect, still has its
quirks, but overall the best OS from Redmond by
far.
Command.com was the commandline in Win9X
because it was the commandline in DOS, from which
Win9X was derived. NT had no DOS heritage, so
it had its own command interpreter cmd.exe. With
XP, you get both -- cmd.exe because it's what the
serious professionals use, and command.com for
compatibilty reasons.
But GWBASIC is finally gone from XP! It came with
Windows through 95 for sure, and I think maybe
also 98 and ME. Actually, the GWBASIC
from my old 95 CD still seems to work fine under XP!
On Friday, February 4, 2005 at 4:30 pm, mario wrote:
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>that is what I was looking for! CMD instead of COMAND. somebody knows whuy there
>is 2 names for this function?
>
>thx
>Mario the floridian
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