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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by anyfoo on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:12PM (#20006540)
Wow, this is a great revelation, and I feel like the lede is almost buried here, namely that DOS seems to have been influenced by TOPS-10 to such a great amount. I wonder how many other DOSisms were in reality TOPS-10isms that had been replicated.
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by kragen on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:41AM (#20007322)
No, the author is wrong about that.
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