On Monday 16 August 2004 02:04 pm, Chris Jones wrote: >>> snip > I seem to remember back in the mists of time long lost that DOS 1.1 was > actually using very similar commands to unix (notably cd, mkdir, but > _not_ more or ls, for some reason best known to a certain W Gates who > apparently jointly wrote PC-DOS as it was then called). My recollection is that the original MS-DOS commands were very similar to those of CP/M. But then it's possible that the CP/M stuff was derived from Unix, too. :^) -- cmg
