I learned Every Command in DOS6.0/6.2 and 6.21 by reading, printing out and practicing them. I had a stack of Tractor Feed Printouts almost 1.5’ thick. I did that with an IBM PS2, 40MB HDD, 4 Meg Memory, 2400 Baud Modem and a Parallel Port back in the late 80’s.
Like the 3rd one with the screen attached to the CPU
I made cables for INTERLINK and created Multiple Boot Choice Menu that had IIRC 8 choices: PS2 Factory, DOS6.xx, INTERSERVER, INTERLINK, Games, WINDOWS 3.0 and WINDOWS 3.11 Boots.
I also INTERLINKED the PS2 to an OLD 8086 PORTABLE that had a 5” Monochrome screen, 20MB HDD, 640 KB Memory (after buying more Chips to Upgrade), 5.25” Dual Floppies, 1 Ser Port, 1 Parallel Port and the Keyboard folded down out of the front to expose the screen snd floppy drives. Also had the Okidata Dot Matrix Printer working too. I did all that just because My Brother-in-Law told Me it wouldn’t ever work. I had no choice but to do it then just to prove him wrong...
Kids these days are Light Years ahead of that in both Hardware and Software.
My Grandson is 16 Months and has already figured out how to make most of My iPhone6S+ do it’s thing.
It’s not that hard to make a simple .bat file if one wanted to get fancy toss in a few CALL , DEL, REN Commands.
I do not believe your statement about your grand son......perhaps I miss understand what you claim
Your grandson does not understand what the iPhone is doing. What he has figured out is how to push buttons and slide things.
All the latest studies show there is major damage to children who use technology at too early an age.....and for too many hours a day
All those things you talk about doing are nice but you weren’t 11 when you did them
Children are not light years ahead at all. They have access to technology. Most of them couldn’t write a line of code if their life depended on it. They don’t understand the hardware or even how it is manufactured.
The technology allows them to believe the world is instantaneous when it is not. It has given them the sense satisfaction is guaranteed. They believe everything they read on wiki or see on CNN. They lack discernment. Almost none of them have travelled.
These children are no smarter or quicker than my generation or my parents or grandparents
