[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie!
Michael Kjörling
michael at kjorling.se
Sat Sep 9 21:04:41 AEST 2017
On 8 Sep 2017 18:28 -0400, from usotsuki at buric.co (Steve Nickolas):
> Heck, even MS-DOS 2 as we knew it would not have been what it was,
> were it not for Unix.
Wasn't it MS-DOS 2 that introduced such advanced features as
directories, pipes and general console I/O redirection?
Of course most software that ran on top of DOS broke much of the
redirection niceness by addressing the console directly via video
memory access...
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