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

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?

Even recovery console has dos commands...

I have almost forgotten DOS, but recently I have said thanks to myself that I have not missed the DOS lessons.

I have got a DVD full of mp3's which wasn't accessible through windows or file manager. But I needed to copy information.

I have entered cmd and started typing
F:\cd Alestorm
F:\Alestorm\cd 2008 - captain morgan's revenge
F:\Alestorm\2008 - captain morgan's revenge\>copy *.* D:\music\Power metal\alestorm....
And so forth...

It has taken about two hours to copy 4.7gigs to my HDD.... but I was satisfied!

Originally Posted by jacob

if you didn't know DOS, how did you recover from a system crash or install the software on a new computer?

By calling IT, and getting a slice of pizza while they deal with it.

It's kind of like asking, if you can't refine your own crude oil, how are you going to drive a car?

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

By calling IT, and getting a slice of pizza while they deal with it.

And if you are the IT department? (which is what we were training for)

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

It's kind of like asking, if you can't refine your own crude oil, how are you going to drive a car?

I'd liken the crude oil more to having to write the OS yourself or manufacture the hardware of the computer

Originally Posted by jacob

And if you are the IT department? (which is what we were training for)

That's a fair point. But so is that most people aren't IT. Another way I could be wrong is if you provoke a catastrophic failure on your home, personal machine, and can't call IT. It can be a valuable skill, but it's also a very specialized one. Most people can get by using their computer every day, without ever knowing the command line still exists.

Originally Posted by jacob

I'd liken the crude oil more to having to write the OS yourself or manufacture the hardware of the computer

Touche - well said! Maybe a compromise analogy, where using the command line is like changing your own spark plugs? All I'm really trying to say is that most people can make great use of a computer without the command prompt, in much the same way that most people drive an automatic, while a few people have stories about the accident they avoided on the freeway by downshifting for more power.

DOS is still useful. Modern pc's have still DOS on it.

I don't use DOS anymore (except DOSBox to run settlers 2 and the like), but I always have at least 3 Bash shell CLI opened at all time.

Monitoring network, log files, and simply because for many things I find the command line more effective than waving my mouse from left to right.

my company still used Dos and i find it much faster than a web based program..but you just have to memorize lots of codes tho

I use DOS for IP refreshing and repairing only.

DOS still favorite for Pinging

I use dos on a weekly bases. I work online doing technical support and it helps for pinging and traceroutes. By having pings and traceroutes done it help with the troubleshooting process. Also, dos helps me personally when I need to see how many connections I have to my computer. Everyone should know the general idea of dos and how to use it.

some programs may require to run in DOS.this is still a very important program for me.

The Windows command prompt is NOT DOS!!!
It's the windows command prompt- completely different-
If I had my way, there would be a REAL Disk-Operating-System installed that you can run just like you used to in 95 and 98...

To be perfectly semantically correct, the DOS ended his live with Windows Millenium.
Windows 2000 and the later are based on the Windows NT kernel, which was a complete rewrite.
Windows 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 95, 98 and Millenium where addon that where running on top of MS-DOS.

What you find in modern windows, is a CLI (command line interface), which was exactly the interface between the user and the machine in MS-DOS.
It's similar, but very different in its underlying structure.

Different at the kernel level perhaps, but 99% of the commands are the same. So functionally it is almost identical.

Different at the kernel level perhaps, but 99% of the commands are the same. So functionally it is almost identical.

That's what

very different in its underlying structure

implies

Nope.. I am using Windows Vista ultimate,,, once i had a good command in DOS

sometimes i use dos to execute files safer and faster and how can we forget the ping command we use with dos i think every one is still using ping command with dos