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Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) by pjmlp on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:37AM (#26273391)
Well, there is this different timeline in the universe where Microsoft decides to keep selling Xenix instead of focusing on MS-DOS.
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Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) by sophistc on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:00AM (#26273523)
... and where it is not successful.
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Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) by pjmlp on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:18AM (#26273620)
That we will never know, Xenix was the most successful PC UNIX clone after all, Microsoft just decided UNIX wasn't the future of PCs.

And they were kind of right, the Year of Desktop UNIX/POSIX is WSL, Android, ChromeOS, macOS.

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