Re: [TCLUG:17392] [OT] Some computing history?

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>Incidentally, where in the Goddess's name did '\' come from? Never have I
>seen this used except in LaTeX and DOS.

my understanding, was that '/' was already used for command switches, so
when they needed directory delimiter slashes, they used '\'.


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