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Old 11-09-2023, 04:17 AM   #71
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Drive letters and device 'designators' such as LPT1, COM2, … are a legacy of DEC's RT11, of which CP/M was a reverse engineered copy.

You can also blame DEC for Ethernet

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And MS DOS was bought in from a company that reverse engineered CP/M or CP/M-86.
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