Comment on The Road to MS-DOS 2.0parentComments−somat25dA lot of early dos development was trying to see how many unix concepts they could fit, directories, pipes, environment, devices.−mesrik25dAnd file handles stdin, stdout, stderr same file numbers also. There was and still is overlapping features with Microsoft later and current operating systems.Linked post is quite good and had forgotten completely XEDOS mentioned Byte article.
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A lot of early dos development was trying to see how many unix concepts they could fit, directories, pipes, environment, devices.
And file handles stdin, stdout, stderr same file numbers also. There was and still is overlapping features with Microsoft later and current operating systems.
Linked post is quite good and had forgotten completely XEDOS mentioned Byte article.