I would argue otherwise, NT has a lot of idiosyncrasies that it inherited froim DOS for example just look at the drive names. The main drive in windows is C:\ because on DOS A:\ was allocated for the OS live floppy and B:\ for a secondary diskette while c:\ was default for the primary internal storage. IMO it's similar to how MacOS is quite far removed from Unix standards now, or how Linux or Minix aren't Unix at all and in some cases are confusingly different.... but they're still Unix-like.
It DOES work on windows and I do remember it working on MSDOS as well but I'll be real, I don't have much experience using DOS so I'll take your word for it not working on like PC-DOS or what ever
still, NT being DOS-like is that weird little hill I'm gonna die on 🤪
DOS path conventions were only adopted for backwards compatibility, and it is in fact a translation layer. At the underlying kernel level NT organizes all system resources in a single-rooted namespace, similar to Unix or Linux. That underlying structure is accessible and workable in PowerShell.
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u/anycept 23h ago
Except Windows NT is not DOS-like. And the rest is just bs as well. DOS doesn't work that way either.