DOS originally didn’t even support directories but was using / for command line arguments. They didn’t want to change the option character and break stuff so they went with \ as the directory separator.
DOS wasn’t originally created by Microsoft. They bought the OS from computer shop in Seattle.
This is a great video about the launch of Windows 95, that covers the history of DOS at the beginning: https://youtu.be/0Ol8ZSE-PEk. Worth watching if you’re interested in the history.
Linux uses forward slash. Windows uses backslash. Because some dude 45 years ago wanted to make it look different from UNIX.
I understand pre-OS X Macintoshes used colons.
They did! And I weirdly kind of miss them for the entirely non-logical reason that they looked elegant.
Don’t get me wrong, I adapted in about 3 seconds when I made the switch to Mac OS X 25 years ago, but I irrationally kinda miss them just a tiny bit.
Code in Rust and you can get double colons for your library path imports!
RISC OS uses periods and doesn’t have file extensions
Was that bill gates just to make one of the first incompatibilities in a long long run?
DOS originally didn’t even support directories but was using / for command line arguments. They didn’t want to change the option character and break stuff so they went with \ as the directory separator.
DOS wasn’t originally created by Microsoft. They bought the OS from computer shop in Seattle.
Thanks for the info, didn’t know that (I did know they bought DOS)!
This is a great video about the launch of Windows 95, that covers the history of DOS at the beginning: https://youtu.be/0Ol8ZSE-PEk. Worth watching if you’re interested in the history.