[Info-vax] Command Line Versus Command Line

[Scott Dorsey]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>And just to add to the fun, CP/M, MS-DOS and then Windows NT all copied 
>the basic DEC-style command line architecture, while neglecting the 
>crucial part of a built-in command parser to handle more sophisticated 
>syntax. So Microsoft’s recent rediscovery that “the command line is cool” 
>remains hampered by this brain-dead underlying architecture.

To give them credit, Microsoft finally realized that command.com was
hopeless and started from first principles with Powershell.  Powershell
is easily as good as anything DEC had in 1974 and as such is a huge 
advance for the desktop.
--scott
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