A DOS shell “protects” the novice user from the cryptic world of DOS. A typical shell will display easy-to-understand instructions from which a user can make a selection.

GEOS is getting a fifth shot at life, as the 1990s DOS shell–despite the name, it is not an OS, in the strictest sense of the term–has been released as an open source project under the Apache ...

Q. I have used an accounting system for many years that is based on DOS. I presently am using Windows 98 SE, and everything works fine. However, I understand that the newer XP Microsoft Windows ope… ...

I’m talking really old ones — going back to earlier versions of Windows prior to XP even all the way back to DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11. I have numerous older PC games that I would like to re-visit ...

A friend threw this at me, he heard it on *two* talk shows, and one was a computer talk show. The computer person said XP was just an advanced DOS shell. The logic was that since you can run even ...

Basic commands of the MS-DOS shell such as dir, copy and format are available as well. After purchasing 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), ...

I'm going to be playing with a whole load of different shells.. I figured I'd ask to see if anyone has familiarity with shells and would know if a 4dos-like shell existed. The basic CLI is ...

While DOS (and Windows) were not short of third-party editors, the original Microsoft Editor holds a special place in the hearts of users of a certain age.

They may refer to it as a shell, console window, a command prompt, a cmd prompt, or even dos. In order to enter the command prompt you need to run a program that is dependent on your operating system.