From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 14:00:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1607081357001.53544@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NBP_SsjYRspmv8zwmFxg__w2mCrJOG0OBsB+u6M+GUPQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Clem Cole wrote:
> I find it interesting that Redmond-ism became the unshifted character,
> not the vertical bar by the shear force of economics of the PC.
Beta documents suggest M$ wanted to switch the...switch character to dash
(-) for 2.0 and use / for the path separator, but *IBM* insisted on
keeping / and using \ for path separator...and what IBM wanted, IBM got.
That said I think one or two OEMs did in fact set the SWITCHAR to - and
use / for a path separator anyway.
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-08 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-08 14:52 Clem Cole
2016-07-08 14:59 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 15:47 ` Nemo
2016-07-08 16:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 20:29 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 16:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 18:00 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2016-07-08 18:23 ` Random832
2016-07-08 20:49 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 21:09 ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-08 21:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 21:45 ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03 ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-10 14:38 ` [TUHS] Slashes Christian Neukirchen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-10 1:41 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 1:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-10 1:52 ` John Cowan
2016-07-12 17:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-12 18:05 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-13 9:24 ` Wesley Parish
2016-07-13 10:09 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-10 21:10 ` Sven Mascheck
2016-07-08 17:36 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 11:25 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 13:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 14:06 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-02 0:12 [TUHS] MS-DOS Norman Wilson
2016-07-02 1:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-07 5:02 ` [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-07 13:43 ` Nemo
2016-07-07 14:11 ` John Cowan
2016-07-07 14:18 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-07 23:47 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 5:40 ` scj
2016-07-08 7:06 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 11:09 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 0:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-09 14:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 16:38 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 11:20 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 11:54 ` Nemo
2016-07-11 13:15 ` Joerg Schilling
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