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Ah, modems... I looked after a national retail chain of close to 400 stores. I developed a MS-DOS batch file, that had a built-in retry mechanism, that dialled into the stores to collect daily sales information using 300 baud dialup modems and generated a report file that the customer's VAX would read. Those were the good old days ... lol
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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I certainly do not miss worrying about error detection/correction on bytes.
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All sounds familiar.
Our main frame was a VAX (later a VAX cluster) running VMS. MS-DOS batch files, couldn't live without them.
Everything is so much different but somehow no so much.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Found it. anchor automation Volksmodem 12. Put a lot data through it.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Win 3.1 runs on MS DOS, so, two birds and all...
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Amarnath S wrote: 3.1 may be better. Less features, less bugs.
In terms of bug counts, maybe, but in terms of bug severity...it's been a long time I've seen a BSOD in modern Windows versions. 3.1 required multiple reboots a day.
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From what I know, the BSOD problem was there in Win 98 also. Only when Managed code made its presence in the early 2000s, did the BSOD reduce drastically, isn't it?
For example I could write
int *a = 0;
and cause system-crash, till the coming of managed code.
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Amarnath S wrote: From what I know, the BSOD problem was there in Win 98 also
All operating systems have their equivalent to the BSOD, even the latest Windows and Linux versions, and yes, they were still rather common on 98.
I'm not sure the reduction of BSODs can be directly attributed to managed code however...I mean, your null pointer sample will crash a regular app, but shouldn't take down the entire OS. Older versions weren't doing such a great job preventing apps from overwriting memory that doesn't belong to them.
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I have seen it fairly recently (or something like it) - perhaps in last two years? Bit scary actually because I hadn't seen it it so long.
And related...
In Las Vegas there is an intersection with MGM, New York and a two other casinos. There are above street crosswalks in all directions for pedestrians. MGM has (or perhaps had) a very large screen facing that intersection. It showed various casino ads and such.
So I was walking on the crosswalk and there was a giant screen of BSOD.
Apparently something similar happened to the Paris casino.
I wonder if one of those sets the record for the largest BSOD.
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Bad drivers can do that, and it's the correct thing for the OS to do as all bets are off.
But a regular end-user app would have a very hard time doing that nowadays, even on purpose.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Like many, I had a DOS computer and I used a keyboard with it. Turns out it was a CON.
I'm getting my coat and my walker
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Sure, but every computer came with PRN pre-installed.
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Nope. I built my first computer back in 1978 and my 'operating system' for a year or two was the Zapple monitor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapple_Monitor).
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I ... don't get it. I miss the reference or the idioms, probably.
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Bitte schΓΆn! 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I assume you've already grabbed your coat...
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We are still being scammed.
- Open a command window
- type "copy <name of text file> con"
- See the text file displayed in your command window
PRN is, IIRC, also still a reserved file name.
DOS - the gift that keeps on giving. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: DOS - the gift that keeps on giving
That statement could be ambiguous but just to be clear since the OP is referring to a personal computer those idioms existed before then and specifically Microsoft did not invent them. If for no other reason than because Microsoft did not create the DOS that they sold in the first place.
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jschell wrote: Microsoft did not create the DOS that they sold in the first place.
Is this documented, or is it one of those "we didn't go to the moon" claims?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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86-DOS - Wikipedia[^]
Microsoft purchased a non-exclusive license for 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products in December 1980 for US$25,000. In May 1981, it hired Tim Paterson to port the system to the IBM PC, which used the slower and less expensive Intel 8088 processor and had its own specific family of peripherals. IBM watched the developments daily, submitting over 300 change requests before it accepted the product and wrote the user manual for it.
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Not if you type format c: 
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