I came from a BBC Micro background and found MS-DOS to be a step backwards from what I knew. I couldn't believe how naff MS-DOS was and how lazy the coders must

I came from a BBC Micro background and found MS-DOS to be a step backwards from what I knew. I couldn't believe how naff MS-DOS was and how lazy the coders must have been to make it so primitive. I also found PC vendors to be lazy too, it wasn't as if any of them made an effort to do any code to improve on matters, they just shoved the same old MS-DOS in the box. What I had not realised before reading this article was that the file system was as flat as Acorn's ADFS, i.e. no hierarchy. How this joke of a product came to take over the world and take us from networked computing to standalone 'personal computing' was a tragedy, holding computing back 'decades' rather than enabling a better world.