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Thats not really fair to DCL - cmd is much more.. lacking in facilities than DCL is. Nor is it fair to DCL as an interactive environment either.
by Aloha 3y ago
Thats not really fair to DCL - cmd is much more.. lacking in facilities than DCL is. Nor is it fair to DCL as an interactive environment either.
- flyinghamster 3y agoTrue enough. CP/M and MS-DOS (which give us the old-school Windows command shell) predate DCL, though; it was a fairly late addition to the PDP-11 operating systems, after it was rolled out in VMS. RSTS/E up to version 8 logged users into BASIC by default, while version 9 made DCL the default run-time system.
- Aloha 3y agoDCL to my eyes at least clearly inherited some ideas from TOPS-20. cmd for all of its braindead nature is surprisingly usable for complex tasks though. I have to use it often, tbh.