| > Not a single aspect but was copied or emulated or expanded on The business computing world still, to this day, largely runs on Windows, and Windows NT was built on the foundations of DOS: it bootstraps from a DOS filesystem, as UEFI still does in 2024, and it could be installed from DOS. It implements an API designed on DOS for a DOS GUI and to this day supports DOS-compatible filenames. All the core system folders in Windows 11 still have DOS-compatible names, from `SYSTEM32` to `SYSWOW64`. DOS itself was emulated by DR-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS, and other OSes. > it's a race to the bottom on price. Always was, still is. Why do you think Linux does so well? It's not technical merit! > have your competitor just happen to be on a trip the day IBM knocks at their door. Absolutely cast-iron lie, and you should be ashamed of yourself for repeating it. |
AFAIK Windows NT was mainly influenced by VMS (which Dave Cutler worked on before NT). The DOS-isms were mainly coming in via the Win95 side and for backward compatibility reasons, but I bet everybody on the NT team hated those requirements ;)
> Absolutely cast-iron lie, and you should be ashamed of yourself for repeating it.
Not the parent, but it's at best a good urban legend and not much different from "Gary Kildall was not interested". Do you have any first-person accounts that paint a different picture?