Re: [TCLUG:17392] [OT] Some computing history?

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

Mike Hicks wrote:
> 
> Luke Francl wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if I'd start proclaiming CP/M's superiority over DOS just
> > yet. I know very little about CP/M, but I *do* know that it had one place
> > to store ALL your files -- the root directory. There were no other
> > directories. So, with that in mind, how great could it really be?

No multitasking, no... And no subdirectories. And I don't think it had
any serial port support either. Everything needed funky overlays for
whatever hardware it was running on...

> True, but DOS 1.0 copied that behavior, if I remember right.  I'm not
> sure which one started making subdirectories.

DOS 2.0. Which added unix like file handles and subdirectories. This is
where the use of the wrong slash got started. ;P