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True 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 sys
by flyinghamster 3y ago
True 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.