Who invented DOS?

[Mike Cesari]

On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:57 AM, cswiger wrote:

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

Because '/' was already used for command options (ala RT-11, etc.).

They _could_ have used a directory syntax like VMS, TOPS-10, and other 
DEC --
DSK:[MFD.UFD.UFD...]file.ext or
DSK:file.ext[UFD.UFD.UFD...] TOPS-10 variant

or TOPS-20:
DSK:<UFD.UFD...>file.ext

or ITS:
UFD;FILE EXT

:-)

Mike