Who invented DOS?

Michael Sokolov msokolov at ivan.Harhan.ORG
Fri Mar 4 11:18:32 CST 2005


cswiger <cswiger at widomaker.com> wrote:

> All I want to know is who decided to use \ instead of / for
> directory separators (warming up the tar and holding feathers).

'/' was already taken up for the command line switch introducer character
(not '-' since CP/M and DOS were originally inspired from the culture of
DEC OS's rather than the UNIX culture).

MS


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