DOS \v.s. Unix /

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From: c... Charles Coughran
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 16:17

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Does anyone out there know why the authors of DOS which is clearly
a baby Unix, chose to change the root directory name from / to \ ?
Was it a prescient sadist who said "We'll let them spend a couple
of years learning where the \ key is on different keyboards, then
when they try to move to Unix ..."
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Subject: DOS \v.s. Unix /
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