Who invented DOS?

[Ethan Dicks]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:57:29 -0500 (EST), 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).

My recollection of that is that Paul Allen took "credit" for the
directory pathname char choice ( (MS-DOS 1.0 didn't have
sub-directories, so it surely wasn't Tim Patterson).  I also have a
dim memory that he apologized to the world for it and promised never
to do it again.

-ethan