Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'installed.': 0.07; 'confuse': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; '1.03': 0.16; '9:20': 0.16; 'bieber': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'received:66.245': 0.16; 'received:dsl.mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:wlfraed': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'yup,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'linux': 0.17; 'say,': 0.19; 'seconds': 0.21; 'url:home': 0.21; '+0100,': 0.23; 'unlikely': 0.23; 'pm,': 0.24; 'command': 0.24; 'aug': 0.24; 'code': 0.25; '(in': 0.26; 'windows': 0.26; 'lee': 0.28; 'i/o': 0.30; 'sun,': 0.30; 'yes.': 0.30; 'chris': 0.32; 'does': 0.32; 'installed': 0.32; 'source': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'operating': 0.33; "i've": 0.34; '...': 0.34; 'things': 0.34; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.35; 'but': 0.37; 'open': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'component': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'header:Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; "it's": 0.40; 'states': 0.61; 'phone': 0.62; 'took': 0.63; 'utilities': 0.67; 'dennis': 0.77; '"oh,': 0.84; 'harrismh777': 0.84; 'further,': 0.93; 'technically': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: pythonw.exe Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:14:50 -0700 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: user-11fb6qo.dsl.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1313374502 news.xs4all.nl 23939 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34795 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:11436 On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:28:23 +0100, Chris Angelico declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:20 PM, harrismh777 wrote: > > ... yup, ... was helping my little sis with her iMac over the phone from > > four states away and had her open a terminal for some  magic... and it took > > her exactly 1.03 seconds to say, "Oh, the iMac has DOS installed in the > > utilities folder!"   :-O > > > > ... blondes...   :-} > > Just to confuse things even further, it's not unlikely that a Mac or > Linux or Windows computer will have DOSBox installed. Is *that* DOS? > Technically no, but practically yes. > Depends... "DOS", to me, is just short for "Disk Operating System"... I've source code (in a book) for K2FDOS, source code for LS-DOS 6, and have used the AmigaDOS component of AmigaOS (granted -- AmigaDOS technically was the part of the OS that gave access to the I/O system, and included the command line interpreter...). "DOS" does not automatically mean "MicroSoft DOS"... I have less experience with "MS-DOS" than I have with LS-DOS and AmigaDOS. What most call "DOS" is, to me, merely a "command line interpreter" (CLI). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/