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Carroll Grigsby cgrigs at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 17 17:35:56 UTC 2004


On Monday 16 August 2004 02:04 pm, Chris Jones wrote:

>>> snip

> I seem to remember back in the mists of time long lost that DOS 1.1 was
> actually using very similar commands to unix (notably cd, mkdir, but
> _not_ more or ls, for some reason best known to a certain W Gates who
> apparently jointly wrote PC-DOS as it was then called).

My recollection is that the original MS-DOS commands were very similar to 
those of CP/M. But then it's possible that the CP/M stuff was derived from 
Unix, too. :^)

-- cmg





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