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Why was the DOS clock device renamed from CLOCK into CLOCK$?

From the Wikipedia article on reserved device names ... and the CLOCK$ (still named CLOCK in some issues of MS-DOS 2.11) clock device were introduced with DOS 2.0, ... Why was is necessary to add a …
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