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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Never Got Used To Those New-Fangled VMS Filename Extensions ...
Date: 28 Jul 2024 13:23:16 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Michael S  <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:50:26 -0000 (UTC)
>Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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>>=20
>> (And of course Dave Cutler took .EXE along with other VMS-isms with
>> him to Windows NT, but that=E2=80=99s another story.)
>>=20
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>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.

That was Seattle Business Computing whose product was bought out by 
Microsoft and became MS-DOS.  SBC basically made a quick and dirty
copy of Gary Kildall's CP/M on the cheap without really understanding
all the features they were copying.  But one of the things they copied
well were the file extensions including .EXE for executables.

CP/M itself was modelled after RT-11 which is where Kildall got the idea
for the .EXE extension.
--scott
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