heyman421

i think you're talking about dosshell

and you didn't have to do that, you just had to type "win" or "windows"

that wasn't that long ago, either. even windows 3.1 machines still booted to dos first

Deepblue

haha forgot about DRDOS, i had it on a 386 years back.

it was a 386 sx16 motherboard/cpu ,40 MB hard drive, floppy and PSU Screwed to a peice of plywood
with no fans and no cover it had a external modem 1200baud or slower i dont remember, i used it for
a BBS system...

that was a one sweet system

Deepblue

that didnt suck, what sucked was being damn good at dos and learning to use
windows

that would have been in the early 90s and it wasnt the dosshell it was Dos, and you could have the Win command in your autoexec.bat to start windows when Dos loaded, but for us Dos people we would REM it out or just remove the command so we didnt have to load windows. the Dosshell was while you was in windows and you went to a command prompt it opened in a window just todays command prompt.
also called a Dosshell was programs like Qdos " QuickDos " and List, a " ansi graphic application that ran Dos commands.
Quick dos is not the same a Quick and dirty operating system also called Qdos and this is the OS that Bill Gate bought for $25000 cash and $15000 per corporate license that he sold. he sold one license and that was too IBM, that is what became known as MsDos and for those that dont know this Windows
and the mouse was stolen from Xerox by Apple and then stolen from Apple by Microsoft.... hahaha suckers

if you like this you should watch the movie pirates of silicon valley.