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
next prev parent 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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