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TCP/MS, We'll Cure What Ails You

Posted by michael on from the bait-and-switch dept.

Cringely can string some words together from time to time, and this week's installment is a pretty good one. He's been reading a little too much Gibson (raw sockets have nothing to do with the spread of MSTD [?] 's), but overall, he's probably right. When the time is ripe, I think we'll see a move exactly like this.

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  1. Re:How DID they do that? by Detritus · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Backslash instead of slash in paths... / for options instead of - (remember switchchar? ..someone took it out) CR/LF instead of NL. ^Z as EOF. blah, blah. I wonder how many of these are deliberate?

    Most of those things were inherited from CP/M, a popular operating system for 8080 and Z-80 microprocessors. MS-DOS was originally an 8086 clone of CP/M.

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