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by p_l 2374 days ago
2.0 was also the "breakout" version of MS-DOS that made it win over CP/M.

It did it by introducing features inspired by another Microsoft OS, the Unix for 8080 known as Xenix: - tree structured directories - pipes - output redirection - DEV directory (mostly hidden as it didn't catch on, afaik)