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[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/20/2015 10:43 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Yah, after I switched to Linux, it suddenly dawned on me that MSDOS was
> just a crippled cheap imitation of the *real* command prompt...

Actually, DOS was modeled after CP/M which was modeled after the DEC PDP-11 
operating system.

It kinda bugs me that people like to give CP/M all the credit, and say Microsoft 
just copied CP/M, when CP/M quite obviously copied the look and feel from DEC.

I learned how to program on DEC machines. DOS felt right at home :-)