Re: Never Got Used To Those New-Fangled VMS Filename Extensions ...

Michael S  <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:50:26 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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(And of course Dave Cutler took .EXE along with other VMS-isms with
him to Windows NT, but that=E2=80=99s another story.)
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And of course you made it up.
Microsoft introduced .exe extension for relocatable executives back in
1982 (MS-DOS 1.25). 6+ years before they hired Cutler and 11 years
before shipment of the first Cutler's Microsoft OS.

That was Seattle Business Computing whose product was bought out by
Microsoft and became MS-DOS.  SBC basically made a quick and dirty
copy of Gary Kildall's CP/M on the cheap without really understanding
all the features they were copying.  But one of the things they copied
well were the file extensions including .EXE for executables.

CP/M itself was modelled after RT-11 which is where Kildall got the idea
for the .EXE extension.
--scott

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