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@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 56 min. ago

Windows Uses Backslashes in File Paths Because IBM's DOS 1.0 Utilities Had Already Taken the Forward Slash

https://lockergnome.com/windows-uses-backslash-paths-because-ibm-took-forward-slash-for-dos-switches/

#MsDos #ibm #FilePaths #retro #windows

Chris in a 1980s office stands where a painted floor path forks into two diagonal stripes leaning opposite ways, stepping onto the backward-leaning one because a stranger in a suit has roped off the other.

Windows Uses Backslashes in File Paths Because IBM's DOS 1.0 Utilities Had Already Taken the Forward Slash

Microsoft's Larry Osterman explained that when MS-DOS 2.0 added directories for the PC/XT's hard disk, the forward slash was already the switch character, so the team picked the backslash instead.

#filepaths #msdos #ibm #windows #retro

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