4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
5:41 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
Tom Jennings wrote:
Don't blame us! It's not like there was a lot of documentation* or published
standards or anything. Hell, a common way to figure out how to work the
machine in the early days was by loading programs into DEBUG!
* for people without money to buy it :-)
Well that's perfectly true. It all seems so haphazard in retrospect.
That was
barely honored outside of Microsoft-land (and sometimes not
even). I would wager that less than 1% of all DOS command-line programs
honor SWITCHAR.
Yeah, why use OS services? They just get in the way!