logoalt Hacker News

steve1977yesterday at 6:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Yup, this basically what you booted into on a C64 for example.


Replies

anyfooyesterday at 7:07 PM

No, that was BASIC 2.0, and using any DOS commands was extremely awkward.

With the notable exception of listing the directory, which was pretty easy through a trick from the disk drive’s DOS which meant you could load the disk directory “as a program” with a special name, “$”, and then just LIST it. But you see, the drive’s DOS had to sort of go out of its way to make that simple.

show 2 replies