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They changed line 70 of v4.0/src/DOS/STRIN.ASM from [0]:

; Brain-damaged Tim Patterson ignored ^F in case his BIOS did not flush the

to [1]:

; Brain-damaged TP ignored ^F in case his BIOS did not flush the

[0] https://github.com/OwnedByWuigi/DOS/blob/ffd70f8b4fb77e2e6af...

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/DOS/S...



If Tim is still around he should PR a change back; I'd not want my name shortened to "TP".


He should make a PR to change it back to the correct spelling of his name.


Agreed. My initialisms are almost as bad. (Thanks clueless parents!)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086. This system emulated the application programming interface (API) of CP/M, which was created by Gary Kildall. 86-DOS later formed the basis of MS-DOS, the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.




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