Who invented DOS?

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, cswiger wrote:
>
>> All I want to know is who decided to use \ instead of / for
>> directory separators (warming up the tar and holding feathers).
>
> Some asshole.
>
> But, throughout all my DOS years I used - as the switch character
> which told MSDOS to use / as a directory character. In CONFIG.SYS:
>
> SWITCHAR=-
>

Also 4DOS (which ISTR is free now) allows use of either / or \ as a directory 
character


Peter Wallace