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When I saw that some of the glue code is in C#, I was momentarily excited to learn more about compiling C# to be able to run on DOS.

That's a thing, too: https://hackaday.com/2020/02/09/c-the-language-for-all-platf...

Because Does on Dope is catchier than CMD.exe on Coke?

Bingo

Or, keeping with the RoR theme, "The Trainwreck also known as CMD.exe off the Rails" (TTakaCotR)?

CMD.exe on coke is pretty dope ngl

Play Commander Coke against the aliens

Or posh on poke I guess.

It makes sense considering that in non-NT Windows, it was a full DOS virtual machine, and while NT's cmd.exe is not DOS, 32-bit versions could still run DOS apps via NTVDM (also a virtual machine).

He sure knows better, and tbh, today this is the apparent ""relict"" remaining from the MS-DOS times so it can be well called like this for a project title, but thanks for the nitpick!

Even without opening the command prompt, the mere presence of drive letters are a particularly embarrassing relict from MS-DOS.