http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/
A year or two ago I found a version that you just put the files in the root of your partition and typed something like minix.mnx and minix started.
The most common way of running DOS before the days of Windows, was by way of an OEM menu. These were typically character-mode menus, where you select an entry from 1 to 10 or something.
This then launched straight into the selected application.
The whole point of Windows, GEM etc, is that they were more than menu loaders: they provided some of the modern operating system functions lacking in DOS, such as printing and file utilities.
If you are really going "authentic" or period, there are a number of good menu programs around. Most of these run by creating a script, and running it, hoping to return to the menu.
The most common way of running DOS before the days of Windows, was by way of an OEM menu. These were typically character-mode menus, where you select an entry from 1 to 10 or something.
This then launched straight into the selected application.
The whole point of Windows, GEM etc, is that they were more than menu loaders: they provided some of the modern operating system functions lacking in DOS, such as printing and file utilities.
If you are really going "authentic" or period, there are a number of good menu programs around. Most of these run by creating a script, and running it, hoping to return to the menu.
If there's a legit reason it's OK, but, as occured in a previous thread, you could easily "answer" a problem that's been solved for over a year, or one that the questioner doesn't even exist anymore.
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(SHSHHSH people...)
(Not really a shell but it starts from DOS)
A year or two ago I found a version that you just put the files in the root of your partition and typed something like minix.mnx and minix started.
no. clearly windes is the *best* dos shell LMAO
winworlds got
tandy deskmate
opengem
and gemini
It's like Windows 1.0 without the extra stuff.
And the default colors aren't homo red and yellow. It's blue I believe.
You won't regret!
the program that keeps on living (even after you use their uninstall program)
-Q
dont have it...d
/me wants!
This then launched straight into the selected application.
The whole point of Windows, GEM etc, is that they were more than menu loaders: they provided some of the modern operating system functions lacking in DOS, such as printing and file utilities.
If you are really going "authentic" or period, there are a number of good menu programs around. Most of these run by creating a script, and running it, hoping to return to the menu.
Try, eg: power10b.zip at http://pc-tools.net or anything at http://home.att.net/~short.stop/freesoft/menu.htm
Wendy
-Q