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From: dlparker@dlpinc00.com (Dave Parker)
Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 23:26:50 GMT
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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.
-- 
Dave Parker                             dlparker@dlpinc00.com
