[Info-vax] Never Got Used To Those New-Fangled VMS Filename Extensions ...

Michael S already5chosen at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 28 04:57:06 EDT 2024


On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:50:26 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:

> 
> (And of course Dave Cutler took .EXE along with other VMS-isms with
> him to Windows NT, but that’s another story.)
> 

And of course you made it up.
Microsoft introduced .exe extension for relocatable executives back in
1982 (MS-DOS 1.25). 6+ years before they hired Cutler and 11 years
before shipment of the first Cutler's Microsoft OS.






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