Who invented DOS?
Jim Leonard
trixter at oldskool.org
Fri Mar 4 19:25:22 CST 2005
Tom Jennings wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, why use OS services? They just get in the way!
Don't blame us! It's not like there was a lot of documentation* or published
standards or anything. Hell, a common way to figure out how to work the
machine in the early days was by loading programs into DEBUG!
* for people without money to buy it :-)
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