[Klaatu]

I couldn't have navigated my PC errors all of these years w/o having subscribed to PCWorld since 1995.

[mjd420nova]

Since the advent of the PC, beginning with the IBM PC, 64K system board, I've followed the progression of DOS across many platforms and on up through the X86 generation machines until the introduction of the Pentium 4. Dos has always been the platform I use for diagnotics. If I can boot to a diskette and load the diags for testing, then not too much can be wrong. Still today I will use DOS to prepare drives by partitioning, activating and formatting before loading WIN98, and then upgrading to WINXP. Seldom does a fault slip by that will stop any further progression to more advanced OS's and I use it as a fallback to do any real meaningful diagnostics. I use PC-DOS 7.0 by IBM for starters.

[Klaatu]

Well, I guess that beats my post.

Can't I still get a free t-shirt?

[kamranonline999]

If by any chance I can browse internet through DOS, I won't even think of Vista. Cos i know its secure, faster and reliable. Dos is the Boss!!

[rgreen4]

I don't know of any DOS base browsers. There were several communications programs, Hayes provided one with their modems, and I remember Crosstalk (I still have a diskette), but it was text bases and a file transfer proceedure more thatn anything else.

[thomascat]

rgreen4 said:

I don't know of any DOS base browsers. There were several communications programs, Hayes provided one with their modems, and I remember Crosstalk (I still have a diskette), but it was text bases and a file transfer proceedure more thatn anything else.

Arachne is a browser I've used with some success. Read more about it on Wikipedia

From there follow the link to the List of Web Browsers - many of the text-based browsers will also work on DOS. Lynx lives! :)
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