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Steve Bliss wrote:
> Was the 8.3 file format originated with MS or DOS? I thought it was around
> before them.
CP/M, I think. My TRS 80 model 1 which used an OS (called DOS)(1) which
was CP/M derived, had it.
1 - once you started running the floppy. Before that you were just in
the ROM BASIC interpreter all the time. I had 2 floppies. 11 hundred
bucks for those bad boys... 80K each and boy was I LIVING LARGE.
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