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

[Scott Dorsey]

Michael S  <already5chosen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>According to my understanding of Wikipedia article, the OS that
>Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer Products and that they
>published as PC-DOS had no support for relocatable executives. The only
>supported format for programs was non-relocatable .com format.
>Support for .exe format was added approximately a year later by
>Microsoft's programmers, most likely by Mark Zbikowski, who was a young
>guy the never worked for Digital Research or for Seattle Computer
>Products.

Interesting!

And now that I think about it, CP/M used the .CMD extension for 
relocatable executables, which was added on there long after the
.COM extension for absolute executables was used.

So .EXE may have been a Microsoft invention.
--scott
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>> CP/M itself was modelled after RT-11 which is where Kildall got the
>> idea for the .EXE extension.
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