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Re: Mac drive letters?

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by: Commander Kinsey - Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:52 UTC

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:58:18 -0000, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

> On 2022 Feb 22, Commander Kinsey wrote
> (in article <op.1hzzztadmvhs6z@ryzen.lan>):
>
>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:06:08 -0000, Wolffan<akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 2022 Feb 21, Commander Kinsey wrote
>> > (in article <op.1hxj3agmmvhs6z@ryzen.lan>):
>> >
>> > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 06:33:49 -0000, Snit<brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On Feb 20, 2022 at 10:23:32 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote
>> > > > <op.1hxc9i2cmvhs6z@ryzen.lan>:
>> > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > Also, MS designed NOTHING here. DOS was purchased from Seattle Computer
>> > > > > > Products, not written in-house at MS. The SCP product 86-DOS was
>> > > > > > designed
>> > > > > > to be CP/M compatible. Drive letters came directly from CP/M.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > DOS was designed by Gates in a garage, this is common knowledge.
>> > > >
>> > > > Common knowledge or not, it is not accurate.
>> > >
>> > > Yeah ok, and the earth is flat.
>> >
>> > it’s trivially easy to see where MS got MS-DOS from. That would have been
>> > Tim Patterson at Seattle Computer Products. Refusing to admit your error
>> > does
>> > not make you look particularly intelligent. Comments like ’the earth is
>> > flat’, above, in response to actual facts
>>
>> "Facts" that you and one other claim to be true, going against "facts" I've
>> read and heard countless times. I can only go with the majority.
>
> Do a Google search for ‘history ms dos’.

Which will either give me one more example on your side or my side. I have enough data already.

>> > make you seem as troll-like and
>> > stupid as David Brooks. You’re not really Our David posting under yet
>> > another nym, are you?
>>
>> I would never pretend to be a religious nut.
>
> Our David is nuts in so many ways

Not as nuts as Snit.

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