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

Michael S  <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:

According to my understanding of Wikipedia article, the OS that
Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer Products and that they
published as PC-DOS had no support for relocatable executives. The only
supported format for programs was non-relocatable .com format.
Support for .exe format was added approximately a year later by
Microsoft's programmers, most likely by Mark Zbikowski, who was a young
guy the never worked for Digital Research or for Seattle Computer
Products.

Interesting!

And now that I think about it, CP/M used the .CMD extension for
relocatable executables, which was added on there long after the
.COM extension for absolute executables was used.

So .EXE may have been a Microsoft invention.
--scott

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

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