origins of batch files

so im doing a speech for my communications class and its on batch files. one thing i need to do is figure out the origins of batch scripting as a whole but I can't find any resources and i figured with this being the programming section maybe someone here has a book link or can find the information. only thing is tht wikipedia cannot be used(hate that)

 

I'd the origin starts with punch cards, you had a stack of punch cards and those job were submitted as a 'batch'. These jobs ran at night or when most of the computing power / resources we free to process the tasks. Moving forward computer got faster and could handle loads, batch jobs were set up to run with little operator intervention via scripting or writing a batch file.

 

thats informative but im mean batch files specificly and i need cited sources

 

maybe this guy?http://www.patersontech.com/Dos/Micronews/paterson04_10_98.htm

 

Batch scripting came from DOS long time before the internet was born. I guess for that reason you will not find that much about its origins. foogoo is right, it indeed started with punch cards. Batch files work the same way. It's not a batch of punch cards anymore but a batch of commands which are processed line by line.
I assume AUTOEXEC.BAT was one of the first batch files at all. It was placed in the C: root and was called automatically. It created parts of the environment, started the keyboard driver etc. Until Windows 9x the DOS was the parent operating system where Windows was started from. Usually WIN was the last command in AUTOEXEC.BAT. That caused the loading of Windows.
You know I'm a few years older, but obviously not old enough that I experienced the entire history of batch scripting.

Regards
GermanOne

 

its great information and everything but like i sadi i need sources to cie i might be able to use the father of dos article but i need at least one more source unfoutunantly even my college where im doing the class where i have to present the speech doesnt have very many sources

 

Maybe better to pick a different topic then?

 

to late for a different topic iv got the date of speech and everything i guess i could skip the history and focus on the idea of coding and some simple commands

in that case would you guys suggest any specifics i'm already thinking opening specific web pages and playing music from a play lit at a set time using scheduled tasks