The choice to use slashes as qualifers instead of dashes was “just to be different” as well.
This was ’78-81. VMS wasn’t in Gates’ mind at the time. > On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Nellis, Kenneth <kenneth.nel...@xerox.com> wrote: > > From: Erik Soderquist >> ... DOS did a lot of things >> against already established conventions, such as using a backslash >> instead of a forward slash as the directory separator, just "to be >> different". > > Not just to be different, but to distinguish from slashes used as > command qualifiers (a la VMS), don't you think? > > --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
