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In article <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!

Paul Allen said in a Wired interview ("Accidental Billionaire")
that he meant to use a forward slash but he used the backslash by
mistake because of his dyslexia.  I'm not sure I believe this,
however.
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