From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael@kjorling.se (Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?=) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 11:04:41 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: References: <20170908210450.C0FA618C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <20170909110441.GD24413@77AD38E6D9044456A84A3BC0CB091E44> On 8 Sep 2017 18:28 -0400, from usotsuki at buric.co (Steve Nickolas): > Heck, even MS-DOS 2 as we knew it would not have been what it was, > were it not for Unix. Wasn't it MS-DOS 2 that introduced such advanced features as directories, pipes and general console I/O redirection? Of course most software that ran on top of DOS broke much of the redirection niceness by addressing the console directly via video memory access... -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se “People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)