Author here. I’m pleased to see DOS on Dope reaching new generations. This thing will outlive me, and I’m happy about that. A few days ago at work, building an

Author here. I’m pleased to see DOS on Dope reaching new generations. This thing will outlive me, and I’m happy about that. A few days ago at work, building an internal website for a customer, I designed a feature which involved executing a console app in another folder. My fellow dev, a little younger than I, balked at the idea and said “are you sure web sites can even do that?” A distant, dreamy look washed over my eyes, visions of ‘DOS on Dope’ shimmered inside the brain, The words “are you sure web sites can do that?” echoed over and over, reflecting around and around inside the porcelain dome of the skull… Strange mathematical symbols like “>”, “:\”, and “|” appeared and disappeared within the mind’s flickering cathode ray tube, and I said: “Yep.”