True or False

[susieq]

Someone told me Windows 95 was the only one that had DOS in it (I mean originally) so that if you have one now, it could be worth a lot of money...or will be in the future, so hang on to it..becaseu they don't make them like that any more.

[Hope]

sue, if you want, I can send you a few disks and if I dig deep enough I think I can find a few copies of DOS. LOL

[SensoVision]

hehe DOS would be worth a lot of money? I doubt but who know maybe I'm wrong, so if you see that someone in Ozz wishing to pay a lot of money for DOS give us a tip, maybe we could make small fortune on this
actually if I remeber correctly Windows 95 and 98 as well also have a lot of DOS utilities in it stored in folder X:\Windows\Command(or something like this) only with Win2k they stop booting from DOS and make Windows real OS and not just a shell over the DOS system like it was in Win 3.1, Win95 and so on.
Also why someone need DOS? If you like to type commands go Linux it will provide you with functionality you couldn't even think of in Dos... it will be free and once you become bored you could always start to usel X system(it's GUI interface for Linux, analog of Win 3.1 or something like this).

Anyway I'm not really sure why someone should back to console from GUI... and don't know why prices on the Dos should raise... many companies with the time make obsolete products available for downloading for free maybe Microsoft will do this one day as well...

[susieq]

Hope someone must have seen me coming with headlights on

I appreciate the time gone into even answering this question....

Also why someone need DOS? If you like to type commands go Linux it will provide you with functionality you couldn't even think of in Dos...

I wonder where my original scource got it from?  Hmmmm......needs to check out the ex, me thinks....he always knew I could be told anything technical and tie me up in knots

[Hope]

LOL...my ex actually taught me all I know about computers and a lot about the internet. Scary as that sounds. I guess he was good for something after all.

[susieq]

 

I guess he was good for something after all.

Oh dear Hope, I almost fell off my pc with laughing .... ....

[Hope]

Well, he was not the best husband, he seemed to have forgotten that when you get married, you stop dating other woman. So my comment was actaully accurate. LMAO

[baba]

Well, 95 and 98 are DOS based... I believe the last service for 98 used dos 8.1... but I'm not sure about the version.
2000 and XP are NT based... you still have a dos prompt... like DOS emulation I guess... I'm not sure wy on earth anyone owuld want to use it... I cant imagine why anyone would want to use dos at all.... but I don't know everyone's minds, or their purposes...

As for computers being solely for the internet.... that's slightly innaccurate, but slightly true also...
it's all about information. If you think about it, computers are completely stupid. The most handicapped people are smarter than computers... however, I don't know of any people tat have ever existed that were faster, and/or more accurate/precise, and have such perfect, unbiased memories. That's why they're so useful...  but since they aren't intelligent, they can only be used for information handelling.  Hense the job genre named "information tecnology". Anyways, it's all about information, and the internet is pretty much all about information, and since computers are so perfect for storing information, it just all fits together. So, it's more like computers are for information, and the internet is just anoter conduit for handelling information... as are network databases, and local databases, and files... etc...

So yeah.... there it is.

[susieq]

Hope,
yes it must be Universal.....same thing happened to me..
All the information that come in,in response to  my True or False question, has been amazing...and I sincerely thank you peolple, so very much..I know a lot more know than I did, and I appreciate it...Thankyou