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The choice to use slashes as qualifers instead of dashes was “just to be different” as well.

This was ’78-81. VMS wasn’t in Gates’ mind at the time.


> On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Nellis, Kenneth <Kenneth DOT Nellis AT xerox DOT com> wrote:
> 
> From: Erik Soderquist
>> ... DOS did a lot of things
>> against already established conventions, such as using a backslash
>> instead of a forward slash as the directory separator, just "to be
>> different".
> 
> Not just to be different, but to distinguish from slashes used as 
> command qualifiers (a la VMS), don't you think?
> 
> --Ken Nellis


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