On 2005-05-13, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005 15:34:39 -0000, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> I think the use of forward slashes for command line switches
>> was adopted by CP/M from DEC's OSes (e.g. RSX-11). CP/M didn't
>> have directories in the beginning, so nobody worried about what
>> to use for path separators (DEC used colons, IIRC). DOS was a
>
> I can't speak for the various PDP-11 family, but VMS syntax was:
>
> hardware:[toplevel.nextlevel.ad.infinitum]filename.ext;version
Ah yes, that's looking familiar. The colon separated the
"logical drive" from the path in brackets, in which the
seperator was a dot. I spent most of my time under VMS running
DECShell, so I used mostly 'normal' Unix path syntax.
> where hardware could be a drive specification or a logical name (only
> other OS I've encountered with logical names is AmigaOS, which also
> allowed one to specify disks by volume label -- and would prompt the
> user to insert volume X into a drive if needed!)
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