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From: Stuart Baldwin
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 00:34

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In article <787264050snz@cdsl.demon.co.uk>
           peter@cdsl.demon.co.uk "Peter Hayward" writes:

>                                                                   ...  I
>    think the guy who designed (?) DEBUG must have shared an office with the
>    guy who did EDLIN.
> 

Not sure of the details, but I believe that debug and edlin are the two
utilities that IBM insisted remain unchanged over successive MSDOS
versions.  They are both, therefore, very old and could well have
been written by the same person way back in the beginning of MSDOS
(possibly even by Bill himself?).

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