DOS

Does anybody else miss MS-DOS a little bit? I do, and I thought some the other day about why. Operating systems today both look too good and still work too poorly, and that doesn't fit with my primal expectations about how fancy machinery should work. In 50s sci-fi, you saw sentient robots that still looked like toasters, and somehow I feel like that's a natural expectation. If computer screens are going to start looking like the future, why aren't the machines driving them acting like the future? Shouldn't they be talking to me and cooking my breakfast by now? It just doesn't seem right that they've become so shiny and flashy without conforming to other futurist expectations.

DOS on the other hand felt more like a primal fantasy of a computer. It was just you and a blinking cursor, and it didn't do anything you didn't initiate with one of a vast universe of arcane typed commands. It was like communing with a reclusive machine spirit that demanded exactly the precise incantations to respond. I feel like a caveman could become comfortable with DOS, imagining that a spirit lived in the keyboard which demanded his or her appeasement.