Remember DOS? take the DOS trivia quiz

Ahh, the good old days. The days when you had 25 x 80 text-only monitors with white, green or amber(!) text. When you had to know the name and spelling of programs or you couldn’t run them. When you could only use eight characters for file names. When you could only run one program at a time, unless you had a TSR. When you didn’t have a mouse or speakers or a CD ROM drive, but it didn’t matter because you didn’t know any better. Well, OK, you did have a high-fidelity 1” cardboard speaker. 

 

When you had 128KB (that’s kilobytes) of memory with two 5¼ inch floppy drives that could hold 360KB (that’s kilobytes) of data. The good old DOS days. 

 

If you remember those days, this quiz is for you. Below are 10 questions to test (or refresh) your DOS memory. Take the quiz and then see how well you remember the “good old days” of early micro-computers. 

 

1.      When was MS-DOS first introduced? 

a.       1929

b.      1978

c.       1981

d.      1988

2.      On which operating system was DOS directly based? 

a.       86-DOS

b.      DR-DOS

c.       CP/M-80

d.      QDOS

3.      Which command is used to clear the screen?

a.       clear screen

b.      clear

c.       clrscrn

d.      cls

4.      What key(s) do you use to exit a program? 

a.       Pause

b.      End

c.       CTRL+C

d.      ESC

5.      What does CTRL+ALT+DEL do?

a.       Allows you to login

b.      Reboots

c.       Awakens DOS

d.      Gets you coffee

6.      What is the command ATTRIB used for? 

a.       Gets or sets file attributes

b.      Gives the program’s author credit

c.       Shows screen attributes

d.      Shows credits for DOS designers

7.      What does FDISK do?

a.       Organizes your files

b.      Partitions and sets boot sectors for drives

c.       Cleans up the disk drive

d.      Finalizes the disk

8.      What would you type to see files and folders? 

a.       files

b.      ls

c.       show files

d.      dir

9.      What is the beginning folder for all DOS paths? 

a.       desktop

b.      start

c.       root

d.      firstfolder

10. Which program did not run in DOS? 

a.       Lotus 1-2-3

b.      Word Perfect

c.       DBase

d.      Netscape Navigator