Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups

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From: Jay Goldberg
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 12:19

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>(3)  The guy who came up with the forward slash addressing in UNIX is
>a disgruntled DOS system developer that got fired without severance
>pay.

What came first. The DOS backslash or the Unix forward slash. I was under
the impression that it was the Unix forward slash that was first.
-- 
Procrastinate now!
Jay Goldberg
jayg@accessware.com
jayg@iwl.net
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http://www.iwl.net/customers/jayg

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Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
Date: 21 Dec 1995 12:19:04 GMT
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