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drfloyd51yesterday at 1:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Which is irrelevant to TMP or TEMP.

It could simply be: When envars were added to MSDOS…


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jodrellblankyesterday at 1:55 PM

Multics had envars in the 1960s and Unix in the 1970s, why were they ‘added’ to DOS when it was so close to an older OS, why didn’t it inherit them from CP/M? Did it get TMP from CP/M and introduce TEMP because computers were bigger but then?

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