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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by p4bl0 on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:13PM (#20005330)
So this is very interesting, but doesn't go into the next obvious question: why did TOPS-10 use forward slashes as command switch?
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by eschaton on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:21PM (#20006729)
That was a general DEC-ism, not just a TOPS-10 thing.
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by neurotrace on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:31AM (#20007090)
So let's follow it to the end. Who first started using slashes that way and why?
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by kragen on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:44AM (#20007329)
You probably want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20007305 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20007259.
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by aap_ on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:15AM (#20007910)
Probably TOPS-10, or rather the PDP-6 Monitor (which later was renamed TOPS-10)
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