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by Aloha 1060 days ago
Thats not really fair to DCL - cmd is much more.. lacking in facilities than DCL is. Nor is it fair to DCL as an interactive environment either.
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flyinghamster 1060 days ago
True enough. CP/M and MS-DOS (which give us the old-school Windows command shell) predate DCL, though; it was a fairly late addition to the PDP-11 operating systems, after it was rolled out in VMS. RSTS/E up to version 8 logged users into BASIC by default, while version 9 made DCL the default run-time system.
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Aloha 1059 days ago
DCL to my eyes at least clearly inherited some ideas from TOPS-20.

cmd for all of its braindead nature is surprisingly usable for complex tasks though. I have to use it often, tbh.

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