Modern Minimalism (Was: Future Computing Trends)

From: Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com>
Date: Fri Feb 27 12:41:38 1998

SHELL=
or
AUTOEXEC.BAT line to execute the program
or
REXX script
or
A program which bootstraps the other program.

The latter is possible in Dos/CPM/etc as there are compilers for that,
but no real compiler yet for Elks, nor a bulletproff shell, though it's
close.

-Mike

Roger Ivie wrote:
>
> > 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 Fri Feb 27 1998 - 12:41:38 GMT