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Marks256 said:Why not just go back to the good ol' days of surfing the web in MS-DOS?
Nigel Goodwin said:Probably because you didn't "surf the web" in DOS, web browsers have really only been a GUI based system. When I first started on the Internet I did email and newsgroups in DOS, and only fired Windows up (Win3.0) if I wanted to browse websites.
I seem to remember vaguely there were DOS based browsers, but they only showed the text from a site.
Hero999 said:And MS-DOS was not secure, it was even worse than XP, any dumb user could FORMAT C:, now just try that in Windows XP.
Nigel Goodwin said:Insert bootable floppy, press 'reset' or cycle power on/off - then type format c:.
No machine is safe if it's in front of you - take a big hammer and hit it!.
But as far as computer security goes DOS was far safer than any modern OS, no worldwide networking and internet access as part of the OS - so remote attacks were highly unlikely.
Nigel Goodwin said:Probably because you didn't "surf the web" in DOS, web browsers have really only been a GUI based system. When I first started on the Internet I did email and newsgroups in DOS, and only fired Windows up (Win3.0) if I wanted to browse websites.
I seem to remember vaguely there were DOS based browsers, but they only showed the text from a site.
Hero999 said:Linux can be just text, graphics are optional.
I found Linux quite easy to install and set up, it's just installing software can be a pain and let's not get started on drivers that don't come with the distribution.
DOS was only easy because it was such a simple primitive OS, even so it was hard, remember having to keep enough conventional memory to run games? That miserable 640kB really was a pain.
I'd like to get into Linux more but I'm too easilly distracted. This forum being one of my prime distractions!
bloody-orc said:you say DOS is hard to use? i think linux is even worse. For me linux is the worse OS ever made on a user friendly point of view. it is safe yes, it is fast also yes but it's god damn hard to get all of that up and running and keep it running without crashing your computer... Dos is easy, just text. dir over here and dir over there... too bad no internet browsing though...
(god damn must install dos on my laptop again... it would be so cool to work in dos in school... or to use norton commander instead... hmm.... so many OS's to choose from.