Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Robert,
OK, but how should a newbie know this?
[that you can switch off a DOS PC without doing a shutdown first]
That is how DOS works. Always has.
*I* know, but I'm talking about a newbie trying FreeDOS
in QEMU or another VM.
Why does the newbie use DOS when he has no idea what DOS is?
He will get stuck because there is no button to klick anyway.
I agree about Eric on this. Besides both Windows XP, Vista and most
Linux distros IIRC do an orderly shutdown or ask if you really want to
shutdown when you press the button. I guess a newbie using DOS on a
physical computer is more likely to just press the power button than
typing "halt". Inside a virtual machine he or she will probably close
the VM down in whatever fashion is common in the users OS. On the other
hand a newbie who has run Linux before might try "halt" or "shutdown",
but I wonder if a Linux user does it that way in Windows as well
(shutdown is available in, atleast, the Windows NT family). To some
extent the user needs to actually want to learn the new OS - why else
use it?
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