Is dos superior to windows me and vista
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Yes, but its also a lot older.
Five drunken monkeys with an abacus is a superior operation system to Windows ME. (Did you really mean ME, or XP?) Windows ME was a crime against humanity. As for Vista, well, it's better than ME...
XP is really quite stable and quite capable. No wonder Microsoft wants to get rid of it.
XP is really quite stable and quite capable. No wonder Microsoft wants to get rid of it.
Why? What was so bad about ME?
^That's a pretty good analogy. It's easy to make an OS stable if it can't really do anything.
Yeah, it's like Microsoft actually saying to be secure on the Internet... don't access the Internet.
It was a total hackjob. Essentially it was intended to be a stopgap between Win 9x and XP. Just a sort-of-new front end slapped onto the old Win 9x kernel. It was notoriously unstable and full of problems from the day it was released. My mother had the misfortune of purchasing her first PC with ME on it. It took several years for her to recover from the trauma. (And I'm no Windows basher, I love XP. But ME was a joke.)
I believe the answer to the OP's question is "that depends." If you really don't want to do anything like serious gaming with your computer, then maybe it's a good thing. If you want to run things like WordPerfect 5.1, then maybe you're onto something.
For the user looking for a GUI, not so much.
For the user looking for a GUI, not so much.
DOS is only "superior" if you only like to run one program at a time and have the whole system go down due to an application bug, thanks to running in real mode.
Windows Me was garbage, but at least it was an operating system.
And I'll just roll my eyes at the Vista bashing. I think everybody forgets that XP didn't become what it is overnight. Lots of people stuck with 9x for years after XP was released, because they were scared of upgrading.
Windows Me was garbage, but at least it was an operating system.
And I'll just roll my eyes at the Vista bashing. I think everybody forgets that XP didn't become what it is overnight. Lots of people stuck with 9x for years after XP was released, because they were scared of upgrading.
In a word: everything. And this is coming from someone who was stuck using ME for over six years, my folks never bothered upgrading the OS on their computer
Ah, you haven't seen an abortion of an operating system until you've seen Microsoft Bob. Windows for geriatrics.
Technically, Bob was a Windows program manager, not an OS.
Yes, I like splitting hairs
Do I get locked out by saying I still use DOS commands?
I still write batch scripts! That is, when I'm not writing shell scripts or perl instead.
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