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autoexectoday at 9:41 AM1 replyview on HN

Thankfully they ditched it. One of the best things about DOS was that it gave users control over the directory structure. While other OS's just barfed a billions directories all over your disk on install and spewed system files wherever they felt like it, DOS let you decide where you wanted things with the exception of a couple of files in the root directory. This did mean that some people just dumped everything into the root of their system drive, but everyone else could organize things however they wanted. You could learn a lot about someone, and their system, with a single dir command.


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rasztoday at 9:45 AM

>gave users control over the directory structure

try making an AUX directory, or CON file, or PRN