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		ringshall on May 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Sepa... " The file system wasn't hierarchical so there was path separator. " Do you mean the opposite?

tssva on May 26, 2019 [–]

A typo. It was non-hierarchical so there was no path separator.

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