Timeline for Why was the DOS clock device renamed from CLOCK into CLOCK$?
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| Apr 11, 2022 at 16:24 | vote | accept | Sep Roland | ||
| Apr 4, 2022 at 18:52 | answer | added | Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 4, 2022 at 16:22 | comment | added | Sep Roland | @user3840170 Thanks for the link to this most interesting article. The very last comment there sums it up: "Not requiring the colon (which was allowed but optional) seems to have been the fatal flaw. Once there was no way to distinguish between a file and a device based on its pathname, there was just no good way out." | |
| Apr 4, 2022 at 11:04 | comment | added | user3840170 | Related reading: <os2museum.com/wp/from-a-feature-to-a-bug>. | |
| Apr 4, 2022 at 8:17 | answer | added | Stephen Kitt | timeline score: 28 | |
| Apr 4, 2022 at 6:51 | comment | added | user3840170 | @another-dave Except that would have been an anachronism, because Windows 1.0 was released when DOS 3.10 was already available, so it couldn’t have influenced the development of DOS 2. On the other and, perhaps other, older clock apps already started to appear (or were expected to appear)… | |
| Apr 4, 2022 at 5:05 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 3, 2022 at 22:28 | comment | added | dave | I (mercifully) have forgotten the vagaries of the DOS FAT implementation. Wasn't it the case that if the filename was a known device name, any extension specified by the program was ignored? If so, that's surely the answer. | |
| Apr 3, 2022 at 21:58 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 39 | |
| Apr 3, 2022 at 21:56 | comment | added | Sep Roland | @another-dave At least in Windows 3.1, I see the WINDOWS directory has a CLOCK.EXE and a CLOCK.INI. | |
| Apr 3, 2022 at 21:45 | comment | added | dave | What was the name of the clock application that was in Windows 1.0? I'd guess there's a fair chance it was called CLOCK ... | |
| Apr 3, 2022 at 21:04 | history | asked | Sep Roland | CC BY-SA 4.0 |