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		mcluck on May 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Sepa... So let's follow it to the end. Who first started using slashes that way and why?

kragen on May 25, 2019 | [–]

You probably want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20007305 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20007259.

aap_ on May 25, 2019 | [–]

Probably TOPS-10, or rather the PDP-6 Monitor (which later was renamed TOPS-10)

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