Next-gen Windows Command Line Shell Now in Beta 668
Suddenly_Dead writes "Microsoft's new command line shell, MSH or Monad, has entered the beta phase. Channel9 Wiki has information on how to download this (complete with Guest ID), and other related info."
Here's a Screenshot (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>
This is what Microsoft has been "fighting" for! (Score:5, Funny)
This is fantastic news. (Score:4, Funny)
Monad? (Score:5, Funny)
I guess the site's running it .... (Score:5, Funny)
... doesn't have a web interface...
I don't get it. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Here's a Screenshot (Score:3, Funny)
One benefit to Monad. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Here's a Screenshot (Score:1, Funny)
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>
Here's a better screenshot, showing the most useful of all Windows shell commands:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>FORMAT C:
WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?y
Checking existing disk format.
Verifying 40,960M
Format complete
Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?
42,949,672,960 bytes total disk space
42,949,672,960 byttes available on disk
32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
65,505 allocation units available on disk.
Volume Serial Number is 3745-19F5
C:\> bwahahaha!
Bad command or file name
Or you could just download the release-quality one (Score:5, Funny)
Re: No Thanks (Score:2, Funny)
I find it ironic (Score:2, Funny)
Probably a very common business tactic, bash the competition and at the same time assimilate its best features, but still, poor style.
Re:Monad? (Score:3, Funny)
Most names people make up for products are stupid. This one might not even make it into release.
Monad?!?! (Score:4, Funny)
"Let's combine 'Microsoft' and 'Gonad'. It'll make Unix jealous."
They tried this before (Score:5, Funny)
" I've been attending the USENIX NT and LISA NT (Large Installation Systems Administration for NT) conference in downtown Seattle this week.
One of those magical Microsoft moments(tm) happened yesterday and I thought that I'd share. Non-geeks may not find this funny at all, but those in geekdom (particularly UNIX geekdom) will appreciate it.
Greg Sullivan, a Microsoft product manager (henceforth MPM), was holding forth on a forthcoming product that will provide Unix style scripting and shell services on NT for compatibility and to leverage UNIX expertise that moves to the NT platform. The product suite includes the MKS (Mortise Kern Systems) windowing Korn shell, a windowing PERL, and lots of goodies like awk, sed and grep. It actually fills a nice niche for which other products (like the MKS suite) have either been too highly priced or not well enough integrated.
An older man, probably mid-50s, stands up in the back of the room and asserts that Microsoft could have done better with their choice of Korn shell. He asks if they had considered others that are more compatible with existing UNIX versions of KSH.
The MPM said that the MKS shell was pretty compatible and should be able to run all UNIX scripts.
The questioner again asserted that the MKS shell was not very compatible and didn't do a lot of things right that are defined in the KSH language spec.
The MPM asserted again that the shell was pretty compatible and should work quite well.
This assertion and counter assertion went back and forth for a bit, when another fellow member of the audience announced to the MPM that the questioner was, in fact David Korn of AT&T (now Lucent) Bell Labs. (David Korn is the author of the Korn shell)
Uproarious laughter burst forth from the audience, and it was one of the only times that I have seen a (by then pink cheeked) MPM lost for words or momentarily lacking the usual unflappable confidence. So, what's a body to do when Microsoft reality collides with everyone elses?"
source = http://www.flutterby.com/archives/1998_Sep/quicki
Re: No Thanks (Score:5, Funny)
Because we're Unix zealots dumb ass. Get with the program.
Re: No Thanks (Score:1, Funny)
Does this mean? (Score:3, Funny)
30 years in computer years? About 1000 years (Score:5, Funny)
They basically got it right.
They must have, otherwise it *would* have been redesigned or have fallen by the wayside decades ago. Decades, in IT. *Decades*. Think about it.
Sure, something may well come along which is "a better way" but I doubt it'll be MS who come up with it, they don't have a philosophy so I don't see how they could.
lol, personalized error ... (Score:4, Funny)
Is computing really becoming pervasive ?
At least it has a sense of humor 8)
'Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
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Re:Here's a Screenshot (Score:2, Funny)
Come to think of it, other than showing white characters on a black screen, it really didn't have any function.
Us old-timers aren't surprised that you didn't recognize it - it was actually more of a prototype than a real operating system.
modded down for speaking badly about my own post (Score:2, Funny)
I need sleep...
Re: No Thanks (Score:3, Funny)
SFU is a joke. What kind of circus you running there?
Cheers
Stor
Re:Monad? (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like a command shell that had one testicle removed.
No, it's plural. You know, like:
"Yo, you ain't no playa. I got mo nad than you, yo."
Re:See... (Score:3, Funny)
Of course nothing ever breaks with a Windows update.