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In <4bcf8m$v1h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> larrys@enemax.zk3.dec.com (Larry Smith) writes:

>
>
>In article <4bbjbo$n8r@news.iwl.net>, jayg@iwl.net (Jay Goldberg) writes:
>>>(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.
>
>What a bizarre concept.  Unix came first by over a decade, and wasn't
>the first to use '/' even then, it was based on Multics, which was, if
>I recall correctly, the first major OS with hierarchical directories
>and which used the slash to create pathnames for them back in the
70's,
>and long before DOS ever came about.  For crying out loud, DOS 1.0
didn't
>even have hierarchical directories, they were retconned into it in
2.0,
>in the early 80's!

I think Multics was in the late 60's. Also, the Dartmouth time-sharing
system (DTSS) the inventors of BASIC and the first working time sharing
system, also had hierarchical directories, at least as early as 1968.

Mike Schmit

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