I've never really thought too much that Windows was a MacOS knock-off, because if it was, it was pretty suck-ass about it. There is no doubt that both Mac and Windows owe a huge debt to Xerox PARC, but I figure that Win95 was an attempt to actually use the higher resolutions of VGA and beyond to prettify Windows and I still use the Win 95/NT4 style interface to this day.
Though there are sometimes multiple ways to get at it, the MS-DOS box for command line interface pretty much shows up as MS-DOS in Win 9x systems and CMD.EXE in Win NT systems, which includes 2000, XP and Vista. Haven't looked at 7 yet, but it is also NT class.
I am the King of DOS Batch Files and use the command line interface for most of my daily manipulations and file backups. I do have to test sometimes whether or not I'm on an NT class machine, because the DOS commands do differ. I believe that the guy who designed NT is the same one who wrote DEC VMS, which explains an awful lot about How We Do Things. (grin)
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Though there are sometimes multiple ways to get at it, the MS-DOS box for command line interface pretty much shows up as MS-DOS in Win 9x systems and CMD.EXE in Win NT systems, which includes 2000, XP and Vista. Haven't looked at 7 yet, but it is also NT class.
I am the King of DOS Batch Files and use the command line interface for most of my daily manipulations and file backups. I do have to test sometimes whether or not I'm on an NT class machine, because the DOS commands do differ. I believe that the guy who designed NT is the same one who wrote DEC VMS, which explains an awful lot about How We Do Things. (grin)
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