Modern Minimalism (Was: Future Computing Trends)

From: Roger Ivie <IVIE_at_cc.usu.edu>
Date: Wed Feb 25 17:48:31 1998

> What would be nice is an ELKS-like thing for DOS, so that one could
> stick in a floppy disk, and it would boot into any program that you
> choose, without Command.Com.

You can already do this using SHELL= in CONFIG.SYS. I did this many
years ago (more than 10, OK? (Have I really been puting up with MS-DOS that
long?)) to make a diskette that booted directly into WordStar.

Roger Ivie
ivie_at_cc.usu.edu
Received on Wed Feb 25 1998 - 17:48:31 GMT