Site Map - skip to main content

Hacker Public Radio

Your ideas, projects, opinions - podcasted.

New episodes every weekday Monday through Friday.
This page was generated by The HPR Robot at

hpr3470 :: External Commands and Emergency Boot Disk

More on DOS. This time it is External Commands and Emergency Boot Disk

<< First, < Previous, , Latest >>

Thumbnail of Ahuka
Hosted by Ahuka on Friday, 2021-11-19 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
DOS, early PC computing, External Commands, Emergency Boot Disk. 2.
The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr3470

Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format. Play now:

Duration: 00:16:48

DOS.

DOS is a general acronym for "Disk Operating System", though it came to refer to the operating system used in the IBM PC, particularly Microsoft's MS-DOS.

In our continuing exploration of DOS we come to the topics of External Commands and Emergency Boot Disks. We cover them together because External Commands may not be available on your Emergency Boot Disk unless you take steps to include them, unlike Internal Commands, which are always part of a Boot Disk.

Comments

Subscribe to the comments RSS feed.

Comment #1 posted on 2021-11-19 16:50:45 by Trey

Oh what happy memories

Thank you for bringing back memories from early in my computer career. I still have a MSDOS 3.31 Emergency boot disk (Because it was the first to support hard drive partitions above 33MB). For the longest time, I kept it in the very front of my floppy disk case. But when I finally tossed all the old PC floppies, I relocated it to the esteemed location of stuck to the refrigerator door with a magnet.

Likely won't boot anymore, but still brings back memories.

Keep up the good work!

Comment #2 posted on 2021-11-19 22:12:52 by Kevin O'Brien

You are most welcome

I'm glad you enjoyed it. There are more in the pipeline, but once they are done there won't be any more in this series. I wrote these 20-something years ago, and I still get happy users who find them on my Web site.

Leave Comment

Note to Verbose Commenters
If you can't fit everything you want to say in the comment below then you really should record a response show instead.

Note to Spammers
All comments are moderated. All links are checked by humans. We strip out all html. Feel free to record a show about yourself, or your industry, or any other topic we may find interesting. We also check shows for spam :).

Provide feedback
Your Name/Handle:
Title:
Comment:
Anti Spam Question: What does the letter P in HPR stand for?
Are you a spammer?
Who is the host of this show?
What does HPR mean to you?