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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by enneff on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:00PM (#20005253)
Unix wasn’t academic. It was pragmatic from the start. A first-hand account: https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by kazinator on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:47PM (#20005573)
Also, Bell Labs wasn't a university, and Thompson and Ritchie were not tenured lecturers. They wrote assembly code, not papers.
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by kragen on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:41AM (#20007319)
They wrote papers too (Bell Labs was, after all, a research lab), took sabbaticals, and lectured at universities. I think one of the group (Kernighan?) took a sabbatical at Berkeley that was one of the events that gave rise to BSD?
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by pjmlp on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:20AM (#20007937)
UNIX was academic, because Bell Labs were forbidden to make profit out of it and thus licensed it via a symbolic price to universities alongside source code tapes.

Had Bell Labs been allowed to sell it, and history would have turned a very different path concerning UNIX clones and its adoption.

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