Re: Hey old people

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Larry Seltzer wrote:
> I know I already threw in the towel on this one, but just to be complete I
> actually got a question in through Microsoft's PR to Mark Zbikowski about
> the whole "origins of EXE" thing, and his response is: "EXE files were
> present in DOS 1.0.  At the time I had ported a linker we licensed to DOS
> and I designed the format and implemented the loader for it. My involvement
> in DOS 1.x was limited to working on the linker and the program loader.
> LINK.EXE and EXE2BIN.EXE were present in DOS 1.0."

Nice! Thanks for the followup.

                                                BB
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