Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Hans van der Merwe wrote: >> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:06 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >>> On 2007/12/07 03:16 (GMT-0500) Aaron Kulkis apparently typed: >>> >>>> Randal Jarrett wrote: >>>>> A lot of the files and some of the >>>>> directories have spaces in the name. >>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>>> What idiot did that? >>> The M$ world has taught virtually everyone that spaces in filenames >>> are no >>> problem. Each M$ user has these "folders": >>> >>> My Documents >>> My Music >>> My Pictures >>> > > The perversity in Redmond knows no bounds ... :-( > >> >> Not to mention the horror of insisting on using the "wrong" slash as >> folder separator. >> >> Hans >> ps. If I had a $ for every mail someone sent me to go and look at >> \\server\share name\file name >> > > Yes, a hold-over of backwards compatibility with > that toy operating system, CP/M. > > [And yes, CP/M WAS a toy. It was written by one > guy in his basement in the mid-1970's to use on > his Altair (*?) Intel 8080 machine, which he > distributed freely to hobbyists. Then it was given > commercial legitimacy first by Radio Shack (TRS-80), > and then MS (Gates bought a slightly extended > commercial version and re-branded it PC-DOS]. > > Forgot to mention. Bill Gates developed a BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800, while a student at Harvard. He used the Harvard computers for this, despite a ban on developing commercial software on those systems. There is some mention that he also cheated Ed Roberts, the founder of MITS and creator of the Altair. The Altair later had a disk operating system that was not CP/M, though many of them were used with it.
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