ScratchMonkey > wrote in
:

> Steve Wertz > wrote in
> :
>
>> MS-DOS (PC-DOS) was nothing like CP/M though. More like Unix, just
>> shitier.
>
> It was based on CP/M-86. The Unix-like features were added later.
> That's why the backslash was used to separate directories. CP/M used
> forward slashes for command options, so it would have made the path
> parser much more complicated to allow it to also use slashes for path
> separators. (Remember how tight memory was then.) (Also, under the
> hood, you can use forward slashes. The backslash was chosen just for
> the shell, but either char works in system calls.)
>

That really brings back memories. My very first computer at home was a
Kaypro 10 with CP/M operating system, a whopping 10MB hard drive, two
5¼" floppy drives, and a speedy 300 baud modem. I could type faster
than the data coming across the line!

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Wayne in Phoenix

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