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

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From: recon
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 20:44

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dlparker@dlpinc00.com (Dave Parker) wrote:

>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.

>UNIX predates MS-DOS by about 10 years, give or take a year or so.
>-- 
That's correct.  The guy who came up with the back slash addressing in
DOS is a disgruntled UNIX system developer that got fired without
severance pay, and got hired by Bill Gates.

recon

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