Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC - bitquabit
In 1973, an operating system called CP/M was born. CP/M had no directories, and filenames were limited to 8.3 format. To support input and output from user programs, the pseudofilesCOM1,COM2,COM3,COM4,LPT1,LPT2,CON,AUX,PRN, andNULwere provided.
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