Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Tuesday Trivia

The answer to yesterday's question is:
1981.

Today's question is:
Before Windows, there was DOS. What was the name of the DOS file in which one stored commands to be automatically executed at startup?
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12 comments:

  1. Joshua Sasmor5:12 PM

    autoexec.bat - a batch file!! You could also use them on Dec clusters running VMS :)

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  2. Gregory Kong7:31 PM

    AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS; the first for executables, and the second for device drivers.

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  3. Anonymous8:04 PM

    autoexec.bat

    Also config.sys

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  4. gbradley9:18 PM

    Batch file
    .bat

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  5. Eric W.10:04 PM

    startup.bat

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  6. KauaiMark11:53 PM

    autoexec.bat

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  7. Steve USMA '855:31 AM

    autoexec.bat

    Now, do you remember what 'bat' stood for? ;^)

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  8. pseudotsuga7:06 AM

    autoexec.bat

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  9. Anonymous12:10 PM

    When someone told me that autoexec.bat was a MS-DOS startup file, I was dumbfounded. I had thought it was a cudgel to beat Lee Iacocca with!

    chicopanther

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  10. Skip12:35 PM

    autoexec.bat

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  11. AJ1:27 PM

    Autoexec.bat (This is the first time I knew one and was the first one to comment!!) :)

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  12. Anonymous4:26 PM

    autoexec.bat :)

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