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MS-DOS had ANSI support with ANSI.SYS [0], that support never got into Windows NT's CMD.COM. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI.SYS https://en.wikipedia.o
by kryptiskt 3y ago
MS-DOS had ANSI support with ANSI.SYS [0], that support never got into Windows NT's CMD.COM.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI.SYS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI.SYS
- pjmlp 3y agoYeah, but that is a device driver, not part of the command.com itself.
- JdeBP 3y agoYou are conflating and confusing several different things, including what operating systems even had a terminal paradigm. Windows NT started out with a "console" paradigm, like OS/2 before it, not a "terminal" one. And command processors like CMD are not what provide the "console" parts of those systems.