Originally posted by Climbing at 2009-3-3 02:16:
Windows NT is indeed not DOS, but its CMD window does have a lineage with DOS.
One cannot say that similarity in appearance means similarity in essence. It's impossible to think that a special actor is a state leader just because he looks like one. The only thing CMD inherits from DOS is its command form, and it has nothing to do with DOS at all, unless CMD can also start independently like DOS and can have rich software under DOS to replace it. In this way, we can consider CMD as a brand-new version of DOS and formally include it in the forum for discussion. Therefore, it's inaccurate to say that it "has a lineage with" DOS. I actually think we can use the terms "winter worm summer grass" and "XX characteristics" to describe the changes between the two.
Just as this forum is called the DOS Union Forum, but there are still many sections unrelated to DOS opened. Knowledge is systematic and well-organized. One cannot mechanically separate it or be dogmatic. Our purpose is to popularize knowledge. Both DOS and CMD are within the scope of popularization.
Although some sections unrelated to DOS are opened, the purpose of opening these sections at the beginning was just to facilitate members to solve practical problems they encountered, not for development, and it's of an incidental nature. We should clarify the main and the secondary. The knowledge system certainly has continuity and connection, but also classification. If we all start from the perspective of pragmatism, then all online forums should be merged into one, and there's no need for each forum to have various sections. Putting everything together isn't very good? Our purpose is to popularize knowledge, but we should clarify what knowledge to popularize. Non-DOS issues are allowed to exist, but they are not within the scope of popularization, and they should not be mixed with DOS. Once again, this is not a general forum, not a forum for solving computer difficult problems, not a free solution providing forum, not a forum for talking about practical things. The relationship between DOS and other operating systems is not a relationship of water and fire, but a relationship of water and water not interfering with each other. However, if the water always encroaches on the river, then don't blame the river for being impolite.
Coming to the DOS Union Forum but not understanding the difference between DOS and CMD is not the user's sorrow, but the sorrow of this forum.
This is indeed not the user's sorrow. But what is a forum? A forum is like a country and society, an abstract noun. Without specific individuals, how can we form a country or society? Therefore, if there are no activities of individual members, the forum is just an empty shell. If there are no efforts of individual members, then beginners will never understand the difference between DOS and CMD. If everyone holds an attitude similar to pragmatism and thinks that it doesn't matter to distinguish between DOS and CMD, then they will not only fail to understand the difference between DOS and CMD, but also post non-DOS posts everywhere in this forum. Then this is even more the sorrow of this forum. In this "DOS Difficult Problems" section, even content of VBS is posted. This is not a problem of not knowing the difference between DOS and CMD.
The view of building 7 is very objective. Making ordinary users understand the difference between DOS and CMD cannot be solved by deleting posts. This is just like governing water cannot be done by blocking.
Of course, I don't want to use compulsory measures. I have been moving posts for several months before this, but there are still people who post posts repeatedly. We all know that the moderators of the forum are not full-time staff and cannot watch all day long. Therefore, it's necessary to take some compulsory measures. This is just like the country's regulation that one cannot take flammable and explosive dangerous goods when taking transportation tools. It's impossible to let you go just because you say you don't know which are flammable and explosive items. If you bring them, then I'm sorry, they will still be confiscated.