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2 pointsdhs14y ago1 comments

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Could someone please disassemble this and finally tell us why DOS strings end with '$'?

In my copy of "Accidental Empires", one of the Robert X. Cringelys has Gary Kildall say that not even Bill Gates knows why this is true.

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2 pointsdhs14y ago1 comments

Could someone please disassemble this and finally tell us why DOS strings end with '$'?

In my copy of "Accidental Empires", one of the Robert X. Cringelys has Gary Kildall say that not even Bill Gates knows why this is true.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse