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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Dave Cutler recollection about Xenix
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:29:38 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2310211328210.91435@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJohCKKXoNNk6=65wWQZ6981USRNnf+ka3BfQEaA19EYXkWZnQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 20 Oct 2023, Jim Geist wrote:

> Both of them were heavily influenced by DOS. Many of the same commands 
> and switches from DOS still work today, and pre-powershell scripting is 
> DOS batch files with lots of extensions added.

Wasn't the DOS interface influenced by CP/M?

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-21  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-20 23:27 [TUHS] " Skip Tavakkolian
2023-10-21  0:36 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-10-21  0:53   ` Steve Nickolas
2023-10-21  1:04     ` Jim Geist
2023-10-21  2:29       ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2023-10-21  2:27   ` John Cowan
2023-10-21  6:27 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-10-21  7:11   ` steve jenkin
2023-10-21 18:21 ` Stuff Received
2023-10-21 15:36 Paul Ruizendaal
2023-10-21 16:38 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-10-21 16:40 ` John Cowan
2023-10-24  7:58   ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-10-22 16:44 ` Paul Winalski
2023-10-22 16:56   ` Jim Geist

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