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Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 03:29:33 +0000, Rich wrote:

> http://www.howtogeek.com/181774/why-windows-uses-backslashes-and-
everything-else-uses-forward-slashes/?PageSpeed=noscript
> 
>    Have you ever noticed that it's C:\Windows\ in Windows,
>    http://howtogeek.com/ on the web, and /home/user/ on Linux, OS X, and
>    Android? Windows uses backslashes for paths, while everything else
>    seems to use forward slashes.
> 
>    Modern software tries to automatically correct you when you type the
>    wrong type of slash, so it doesn't matter which type of slash you use
>    most of the time. But, sometimes, the difference still matters.
> 
>    So why is Windows the odd operating system out? It's all down to a
>    few accidents of history that happened decades ago.
> 
>    ...

That doesn't really go back far enough. DOS took the / switch convention 
from CP/M - they didn't 'design' it. And CP/M almost certainly took it 
from DEC - on PDP-8, PDP-10, etc.



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Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-11-01 03:29 +0000
  Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-11-01 11:14 +0000
    Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-02 23:05 +0000
      Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-11-02 23:26 +0000
        Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-11-03 00:04 +0000

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