RE: Hey old people

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> Larry Seltzer wrote:
>
> > Yeah, that's right, and it was one of the reasons DOS 2.0 was important.
> > You might have noticed that EXE files begin with 'MZ' (and the DOS 2+ MCB
> > chain uses M and Z as identifiers). These are vanity marks for Mark
> > Zbikowski, lead programmer on DOS 2.0, but he wasn't even a Microsoft
> > employee when DOS 1 was written.
>
> So presumably LINK.EXE also first appeared in DOS 2.0 (or a later 
> version)?
 
Unfortunately, I no longer have my PC Dos 1.1 diskette.

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