On 2006-08-02 17:38:54, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Gerhard Fiedler enlightened us with: >>> Microsoft did *NOT* write DOS >> >> Well, they didn't write most of DOS 1.0. But it seems they did write >> (or at least specify) most if not all of the rest up to DOS 6.22 or >> so. Which is possibly considerable. > > Those are MS-DOS version numbers you're talking about.
Of course. The issue was that I wrote that "Microsoft wrote DOS on Xenix" and Alex objected. I was of course wrong in that totality, but then, they still wrote everything between DOS 1.0 and 6.22 on Xenix. > For example, they had nothing to do with FreeDOS, which is also a DOS. Yup, and a number of other DOSes like Novell DOS etc. Still all (or most?) of these use the backslash :) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
