On 8/5/2016 2:14 PM, Nellis, Kenneth 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?
Maybe ... but my first thought is that they did it to avoid
copyright lawsuits ...
Eliot Moss
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