Re: [NTLK] [OT] It's MS-DOS 6.22 day!

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[mailto:newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Miro Copic
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] It's MS-DOS 6.22 day!

On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:17 PM, M. Horvat wrote:

>
>> So MD-DOS 6.22 [sic] day is over. Can you explain this joke?
>
> Of course. It was MS-DOS 6.22 day because 6/22 = 6.22, and 6.22 was
> the last standalone version of MS-DOS to be released - 7.0, 7.1, and
> 8.0 were all distributed together with Windows 95, 98, and
> Millennium Edition respectively.

Why is that a joke?

It was a rather sad day to remember...

Best, M.

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Why is that? The last time we had an OS that was not a graphical shell?
Still have Linux.

I am all for command line OS, but there are some actions that are just a
lot more simple to do in a graphical shell.

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Received on Tue Jun 23 14:57:36 2009