MS-DOS, every mention
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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 45:09 Steven Sinofsky And he wrote like a DOS program to schedule a doctor's office, which you'd think it's just scheduling.
“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 11:05 Alex Rampell Microsoft DOS worked pretty well. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 31:54 Alex Rampell Like their very, very first products, they were not Microsoft Office, it was not DOS. 2 times in the scene
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 3:44 Eugenia Kuyda And so we started thinking, we got obsessed with this metaphor that the current chatbots are really the Microsoft DOS era for AI interfaces, and that there will be some sort of a Windows Mac OS moment.
- ▶ 24:18 Eugenia Kuyda How is it possible that we have this godlike technology, yet we pass around these text prompts, which is almost like Microsoft DOS commands, but worse, because at least the commands were, it was like sort of like you could learn them.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 54:59 Amjad Masad Uh, in the DOS, uh, in the DOS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:24 Amjad Masad So a lot of time I just spent it in DOS and writing batch files and opening games and messing around with that.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 55:17 Steven Sinofsky And when IBM came out with the PC and Microsoft came out with DOS, part of that consolidation was due to the 2 times in the scene
Agents, Lawyers, and LLMs
- ▶ 23:58 unnamed speaker When MS-DOS first came out, you were just typing into a terminal to move things around.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:53:01 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, which is the same, um, you know, which is the same, um, uh, you know, the same thing that Microsoft did originally licensed DOS way back when.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 27:26 Ben Horowitz You know, they're all saying, uh, Lotus one, two, three, or DOS ain't done till Lotus one, two, three won't run was their motto. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 22:12 Chris Dixon I mean, it's still, people are still using, you know, I don't know, you go to the, whatever, you go to the United desk, and they've got like a DOS interface, you go here, and they've got Windows, you know, I mean, the government hack was…
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 14:31 Ben Horowitz oh my god, the differences in operating systems and like this version of DOS I have here and my phone, and like, this is a really hard problem, and that was Dropbox.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 16:44 Steven Sinofsky And we, you know, I certainly firmly believe, and we, and we had already experienced this once at Microsoft, where we ran DOS programs on a GUI, and you just, like, started up in a window, and people had all of the same complaints back…
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 10:27 Ben Horowitz Which, uh, you know, was like a big advance over the text-based interface of DOS.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 5:46 Steven Sinofsky This, you kind of, you kind of have to invert things, and it reminded me very much of my first transition to Windows, because in the DOS world, nobody remembers this, of course, but in the DOS world, you,
a16z Podcast | The Internet is His Religion
- ▶ 4:46 Ben Horowitz Probably even more devastated when he saw DOS.
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 2:12 Steven Sinofsky Um, I think that, that what we want to do is just sort of talk about this, uh, well, we call it the DCOS, which is weird because data center is, is one word, so it really should be DOS, but that would take this podcast a whole different…
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 11:52 Steven Sinofsky And then when the graphical interface came along, it had to replace a few million DOS machines.
a16z Podcast | The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
- ▶ 2:54 Steven Sinofsky So early in the PC era, most of the PC-ish platforms, this is, I don't mean PC like DOS, I mean PC like thing with a microprocessor.
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 2:18 Steven Sinofsky In fact, it was mostly DOS and