Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by jiveturkey on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:37PM (#20005060)

better question: why does my Ford navigation use backslash as the alternate street name separator? unbelievably irksome to me.

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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by firethief on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:04PM (#20005694)

Because Windows has made \ so common that many normies now consider it the forward slash. In the encounters with them I fail to evade, I often hear them referring to the slashes in URLs as "backslash". Shudder.

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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by octorian on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:38PM (#20005912)

I thought normies considered \ to be the "computer slash". (Which basically explains all the verbal misuse)

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