XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 08:28:03 -0700, John Ames wrote:   
      
   > CP/M owes a lot to the DEC lineage, although it dispenses with some   
   > of the more tedious mainframe-isms - e.g. the RUN [program]   
   > [parameters] syntax vs. just treating executable files on disk as   
   > commands in themselves.)   
      
   It added its own misfeatures, though. Like single-letter device names,   
   but only for disks. Non-file-structured devices were accessed via   
   “reserved” file names, which continue to bedevil Microsoft Windows to   
   this day, aggravated by a totally perverse extension of the concept to   
   paths with hierarchical directory names.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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