Who invented DOS?

Michael Holley swtpc6800 at comcast.net
Fri Mar 4 12:50:57 CST 2005


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

I use Windows and Solaris. The driectory separator drives me batty.

One thing that DOS got right is to retain the file date when 
a file is copied to another directory.
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Michael Holley
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