> On 01/06/2011 12:30, clipka wrote:
>
>> It's one of those relics from the time when MS-DOS started out as a CP/M
>> clone with a few added features. CP/M did have the concept of drives but
>> didn't have directories, so one working directory per drive would give
>> you the opportunity to have programs ported from CP/M stick to drives
>> only, and yet prevent them from spamming the main directories of each
>> drive they'd work on.
>>
>> So back then it was probably a good idea.
>
> Oh... my God! o_O

OSes are like cities: built on top of the ruins of older ones...

(Don't remember who said it, I think it was a PC Week columnist who was 
writing about solving a "NO ROM BASIC" error after installing Linux on 
her machine)

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