On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:58, Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:47:24 -0700, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No, Denial of Service would be DoS. He's talking about Disk Operating
>> System. Funny, though.
>
> Well, and "Disk Operating System" is a language then? :-)
>
> Okay okay, of course I knew that he was refering to batch
> programming with DOS commands when using "DOS as a language".
> When people mention "DOS", I fist think about DOS/360 and
> afterwards about DOS (as CP/M successor) implementations
> for the PC. Shows how old I am. :-)

We might be of similar ages. :)

> Anyway, a bit of DOS batch programming experience helps
> people intending to write a /bin/sh shell script, and if
> this task is done, a "GUI wrapper", either using text mode
> with dialog, or using Tcl/Tk in X is quite easy.

Absolutely.

Kurt
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