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[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 9/14/2022 6:46 PM, gah4 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 6:16:14 AM UTC-7, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> They could name the file xxx_COM.TXT instead of xxx.COM so
>>> that Windows doesn't think it is an executable COM file...
>> 
>> Yes, why did Windows use the COM extension, for something else,
>> when VMS already had a use for it.
>
>Windows inherited it from DOS. And DOS supposedly inherited it from CP/M.

Yes, and CP/M inherited most things from RT-11.... but... not this one.
In RT-11 the .COM file is a command language script just like in VMS.
So you can blame Gary for this one.
--scott

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