see, two dots, slanting line and greater-than-sign
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You need to understand this background to appreciate how a non-techy person would describe their experience with MS-DOS
The other day, I was talking to her about the days (during my engineering college) when I used to work on DOS. Conversation went something like this.
The text in parenthesis are my thoughts, it isn't part of the actual conversation
me: Do you know what is DOS ?
her : Disk Operating System
(wow, I didn't think she would know)
me: How did you know ?
her : I had to study about it, but all I know is the acronym
(Thought so)
her : Do you mean MS-DOS ? Ohh, I remember now, it was so boring
(why boring ?)
her : There were no colors, just a boring black and white screen
(Hmm, you have been using computers only post-windows '95 days, no wonder you find DOS boring)
her : All I remember is that it used to show - see, two dots, slanting line and greater-than-sign -
She was trying to explain the MS-DOS Prompt "C:\>" (Now read the description again, to make sense of it)
