China DOS Union

The Ten Commandments of DOS
Translator's note: it's an outdated joke, bringing back those days when we used DOS.
　　　　　(These are not Moses' Ten Commandments!)

1. I am thy DOS; thou shalt have no operating system before me, unless Bill Gates can profit from it.

2. Thy DOS is a character-based, single-user, single-tasking, standalone operating system. Thou shalt not try to make it networked, multitasking, or display a graphical user interface.

3. Thy hard disk shall never have more than 1024 sectors; thou dost not need that much space.

4. Thy applications and data must be smaller than 640K of memory; after all, that is already ten times that of a CP/M machine. Cherish this 640K of memory, and do not foul it up with device drivers, memory managers, or other useful things.

5. Thou shalt use the true slash character ("\) to separate thy path directories. Thou shalt learn it and love it, even though typewriter keyboards do not have it; yet it shall become the standard on computer keyboards.
(Translator's note: UNIX uses “／” as the path separator.)

6. Thou shalt edit and stir up the sacred contents of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT until the functions of DOS suit thy liking, and never give up in disgust.

7. In thy heart thou knowest that DOS must maintain backward compatibility with the sacred version 2.0, and has blindly missed the chance to be compatible with the creations of the latter half of this century. But thou canst still run WordStar 1.0.

8. Improve thy memory. For example, thou must remember that JD031792.LTR is a letter thou wrote to JANE three years ago, mentioning the taxes thou mayest deduct because of thy donation to her organization. When the tax collector from the Internal Revenue Service asks thee for proof, thy memory is all thou hast.

9. Choose the names of thy directories carefully, for renaming a directory is difficult. Nor shalt thou try to relocate thy directory tree.

10. Learn well the Vulcan Nerve Pinch (ctrl-alt-del), for it often becomes thy savior. Thou shalt sincerely tell everyone that rebooting DOS is to solve its frequently occurring problems.

Oh, profound...

Hehe.... brilliant move...

Ugh!
Classical Chinese is what I'm worst at!

Hehe, then you have to learn it!!

Excellent, thanks.

Bump

Let's all keep pressing ctrl-alt-del

Hehe

Please hold down the ctrl and alt keys on the keyboard with your left hand, then use your right hand to hit the delete key at a rate of twice per second (faster is even better). Press it more than 1000 times, and something wonderful will happen........................

The following is quoted from LanE's post at 2003-6-4 19:03:30:
Please hold down the ctrl and alt keys on the keyboard with your left hand, then use your right hand to hit the delete key at a rate of twice per second (faster is even better). Press it more than 1000 times, and something wonderful will happen........................

A person calling himself windows comes out from inside the computer and says to you, “Are you trying to wear me to death!!”

Looks like pc1415926 tried it, and the result was pretty good

Remember it well................

Remember it well................