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		hyperman1 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Much of CP/M's Design Ended Up in MS‑DOS? I've heard that PC-DOS 1 had no directory support, and got drive letters as a replacement. DOS 2 found this already limiting, and introduced dirs, but the drive letters already existed. The fact that devices like CON exist (virtually) in every dir is also a consequence of this.

pjmlp 16 days ago [–]

When I started using PCs, MS-DOS 3.3 was the latest version, and my memory also tells me that directories were introduced in version 2.

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