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Spuzzum · #1 July 5th, 2002, 12:33 AM

What I'm trying to imply is that DOS was based from UNIX. God only knows why the original DOS developer -- or maybe Microsoft -- made the switch from a slash to a backslash. =P

(Gates didn't make DOS; he bought it and then tweaked it.)

Lemmy · #2 July 5th, 2002, 12:38 AM

sachmo:

Spuzzum:
too far-fetched

i knew ms didn't create dos, but i didn't know the slash was changed

[ July 04, 2002, 23:39: Message edited by: Lemmy ]

Ed Kolis · #3 July 5th, 2002, 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spuzzum:
What I'm trying to imply is that DOS was based from UNIX. God only knows why the original DOS developer -- or maybe Microsoft -- made the switch from a slash to a backslash. =P

Gee, then I must be God

, because I read somewhere that "\" was chosen because for some reason they'd decided to use "/" for command-line parameters, instead of "-"... of course, some DOS programs use "-" anyway