Who invented DOS?

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Fri Mar 4 14:54:36 CST 2005


Tom Jennings wrote:
> But, throughout all my DOS years I used - as the switch character
> which told MSDOS to use / as a directory character. In CONFIG.SYS:
> 
> SWITCHAR=-

That was barely honored outside of Microsoft-land (and sometimes not even).  I 
would wager that less than 1% of all DOS command-line programs honor SWITCHAR.
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