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That's mainly because DOS couldn't do anything. If you want to reproduce the capabilities of DOS - single tasking, single threading file and screen IO in text o
by JulianMorrison 15y ago
That's mainly because DOS couldn't do anything. If you want to reproduce the capabilities of DOS - single tasking, single threading file and screen IO in text or simple non-windowed graphics - you really wouldn't need to learn much more nowadays.
- gaius 15y agoA lot of people did a lot of real work on DOS (or CP/M, or whatever) systems. And they knew a lot more than today's Ruby On Rail For Dummies crowd.
- JulianMorrison 15y agoNot comparable. The then-contemporary equivalent to "today's Ruby On Rails For Dummies crowd" was hobbyist BASIC programmers. The modern day equivalent to people making DOS jump hoops would be professional C++ games programmers.