I do agree, DOS is going to stay no matter what opersting system microsoft launch, it is the base of all the os...

Originally Posted by henshin

Modern OS lack DOS OS especially Windows vista. From now modern days, is DOS is still in use or is anyone still use this OS

Modern Microsoft OSes don't lack DOS. The Command Prompt is still considered DOS, and it is used all the time by different professionals. I know I use it frequently to flush my DNS as well as for pinging servers.

Yes, DOS are important.. I'm using the DOS command when I'm trying to delete a virus..

I daily use DOS. Into directories in flash. because the os is too slow to rech with 5 sec. Don't feel embarrassed, at least it is knowldge and still very few people know about it.
Cheers to all DOS users.

all OSs have DOS, what exactly are you trying to accomplish?

i highly recommend learning dos commands! its so much quicker if you want to copy a harddrive to back it up open a number of items at once set the commands up in notepad save as a bat
and then runit whenever you need to i have a xcopy command that backs uyp my harddrive on a event timer that goes of everyday so i dont even have to worry about loosing my fiel

DOS is still in use , but just some people ,not much .

sometimes , we use the DOS command , such as ,ping , copy ,del ,net user ,net use ,netconfig ....

Originally Posted by jacob

you can get a DOS window to come up from typing "cmd" in the "start search" box from the start menu.

i don't think we'll ever completely get away from DOS. i can remember arguing with classmates when i was in college over a decade ago who felt we shouldn't be learning DOS when Windows 95 was out. if you didn't know DOS, how did you recover from a system crash or install the software on a new computer?

Or you could simply use DosBox

no.. i dont use DOS anymore. But it was fun using it. and you can learn a lot of things from it.

I use the linux terminal -- very similar looking, different commands though.

I use also the linux terminal, it is way more powerful than DOS.

I'm still using for ip stuffs and shutdown stuffs.

I don't use DOS, I like the linux terminal.

DOS is not the same as a command prompt. Disk Operating System (DOS) was an actual Operating System that Windows 3.1 and to a lesser extent, Windows 95 ran on top of.

That being said, the command prompt is extremely useful. What would be better is if Microsoft ever gets around to implementing Monad, which is basically the bash shell for Windows. It allows really cool features (better scripting support, mounting the registry as a file system, etc).

I still use cmd for some network commands, I still find it the quickest way for problem solving network issues.

however, dos is still isefull untill now...
i always use it to do pinging, or enter registry.
btw, i agree with codyloco that windows command prompt is not dos...
i never call it dos but commnd prompt... it's very usefull..

I almost forgot about DosEmu for linux, always good to play some old dos games in Linux. Nice little addition.

how can we forget the ping command we use with dos i think every one is still using ping command with dos

Exactly! I am still using dos for copying and for simple ping commands. DOS is very useful for me.

I am still using DOS for to copy list of file name from a particular directory.

By the i forget all command of dos but recovery console has dos commands..