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I think CP/M copied that convention from an even older OS but I can't remember which one.
by mark-r 7y ago
I think CP/M copied that convention from an even older OS but I can't remember which one.
- jcrawfordor 7y agoCP/M was developed on TOPS-10 and copied a lot of concepts from it. I can't immediately tell whether or not this is an example, but for any given eccentricity of CP/M it's a good bet that it came from TOPS-10. It's amusing that almost the same can be said about NT: for any given eccentricity of Windows NT it's a good bet that it came from VMS, since the two had the same principal designer.