25 Mar
2014
25 Mar
'14
7:17 p.m.
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, allison wrote:
TITLE XENIX - IO system to mimic UNIX
NAME XENIX
Xenix to dos file transfer?
Xenix ran on PDP-11 and PRO3xx as well as PCs.
Wouldn't that have been nice?
No, sorry, just some routines to make the user interface/subdirectory
structures of MS-DOS more closely resemble UNIX for people who wanted Unix
instead of DOS
MS-DOS 2 was intended to "resemble" Unix.
For example, Microsoft said that they had been planning to use '/' for
directory path separator and '-' for command-line switch punctuation, but
at the last minute, IBM decided to go with '\' and '/' instead.