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Re:Effective Shell by layer8 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:31PM (#31842695)
Yeah, I didn’t mean it in terms of of source code and implementation, and certainly a lot of features were added since DOS, but since both OS/2 and Windows (NT) were intended to be successors of DOS, their shell took over the syntax and conventions of the DOS shell.
Re:Effective Shell by chasil on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:53PM (#31842928)
...but also some of Bill Joy's influence as well.

It is compatible with, but distinct from what preceded it.