From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23314 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2023 02:29:52 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 Oct 2023 02:29:52 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B974241A; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:29:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: from clamta07.bpe.bigpond.com (clamta07.bpe.bigpond.com [203.42.22.23]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7407E4240F for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:29:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: from claprdcmr05 by claprdomr07 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1qu1kC-0005hI-1Y for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:29:40 +1100 Received: from [110.141.193.233] (helo=aneurin.horsfall.org) by claprdcmr05 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1qu1kC-000Gjf-18 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:29:40 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 39L2TdlF041627 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:29:39 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 39L2TcUB041624 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:29:39 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:29:38 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-tce-ares-id: e{a42d7830-8467-456c-b172-e1aa6070c5f7}1 X-tce-spam-action: no action X-tce-spam-score: 0.0 X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=WLW5HFgR c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=65333794 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=bhdUkHdE2iEA:10 a=4gzbRl78AgyJ9fryWRYA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfDnHLi1VfkKCalZh08Pmz90s1b81YGh1C19YwYtkG988RgkruJLLUAXqVZfg/a2YL12fwZLdKBrT9LA1BTuw2HsqMxsqf8dHnR4LjTkgL3YQ42Sl3YkJ iNBan5auHjUgz8bohYCAIbKgTjLhXzHDpX+rdNUZFufkg6CfEvQBOUJV Message-ID-Hash: 4YPEUZKJILJYKE3RMFY7A3APAU7W737C X-Message-ID-Hash: 4YPEUZKJILJYKE3RMFY7A3APAU7W737C X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Dave Cutler recollection about Xenix List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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