Is ms-dos still important?

They say ms-dos is still important. So, do you use ms-dos every now and then? What for?

Hi,

I don't use it for anything.

MS-DOS has effectively ceased to exist as a platform for desktop computing. Since the releases of Windows 9x, it was integrated as a full product mostly used for bootstrapping, and no longer officially released as a standalone DOS.

That's just me personally though, others may use it as XP and Vista both do include the files.

MSDOS is long dead. My company ran some MSDOS applications up until a few years ago but these were run in OS/2 and later Windows NT.

There is still some work being done and a few users of FreeDOS which is a MSDOS compatable operating system that is also free.

only thing msdos is good for is hacking from what I've learned now, and booting your OS if it fails to boot itself

DOS is awesome. DOS is your friend. DOS always works. DOS is trustable. DOS is stable. DOS had zork; DOS had BBS's. They even have tcp/ip and html browsers for it nowadays. You can build an absolutely unhackable server with it. ...yes, absolutely. If something goes wrong in DOS, it's either a badly-written application, or a true genuine hardware failure. In the old days, we did not have mice to click...we learned about the computer and how it works, and even how to talk to it, to tell it what we want from it...thus we learned to speak DOS. This is the difference in the generations. We actually "learned" stuff about the computer, instead of clicking a picture and getting what we want instantly. PS:...DOS will chew you up and spit you out if you "typ lk ths" in tardspeak.