Who invented DOS?

willisjo at zianet.com willisjo at zianet.com
Fri Mar 4 11:13:28 CST 2005


cswiger writes: 

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

There's an old bit of folklore that says the forward slash key
was broken on Patterson's keyboard ;^) 

John P. Willis
Coherent Logic Development 



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