Re: Dos vs CMD
- Posted by LarryMiller Dec 22, 2010
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There is indeed a great deal of confusion about DOS and the command line (CMD). Many people think they are the same thing. But this is not the case.
DOS refers to an operating system, as does Windows and Linux. DOS is an old OS that was abandoned by most developers long ago. There is no DOS in any modern OS and there hasn't been for a long time. Modern versions of Windows (except 64 bit) provide an emulated environment in which well written DOS applications can run. The level of support is dropping with each new version of Windows and will no doubt soon disappear entirely.
The default user interface to DOS is command.com which is a command line environment.
Windows of course is a much newer OS and is under continual development. It also has a command line interface provided by cmd.exe, which happens to look much like command.com.
The DOS OS is no longer supported by Euphoria. The time and effort required to do so was out of all proportion to the number of people that were using it. And that number was only going to drop.
Euphoria continues to support the command line interface in the Windows OS (CMD), as well as Linux and OSX. A number of important enhancements were added with Euphoria 4 and there is little doubt more will be added in later versions.
DOS is a dying OS but the command line will likely be around for many more years.
