dos 1.0

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jul 23 18:33:30 2003

At 02:14 PM 7/23/03 -0700, Frank McConnell wrote:
>Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> wrote:
>> 3.xx added support for path in executution (you could run a program that
>> was in a different directory than the one that you were in)
>
>Typo? I remember MS-DOS 2.11? on the HP150A in 1983 supporting a
>PATH environment variable which COMMAND.COM would use to search for
>executable programs.
>

    I'm not sure when the PATH feature was added to IBM PC DOS but it
wasn't uncommon for different manufacturers to add features in different
versions. In fact, the same versions from different manufacturers seldom
had exactly the same features. Compaq always seemed to add features to
earlier versions of DOS than IBM did.

    Joe
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