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- From: jahlstro@cisco.com (John Ahlstrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Operating system "ranking" based on posts to losers groups (was language ranking)
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- Date: 5 Jan 1996 00:01:04 GMT
- Organization: cisco Systems
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- Daniel Finster (df@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG) wrote:
- : From: Jay Goldberg <jayg@iwl.net>
- :
- : Unix came first by over a decade, and wasn't the first to use '/'
- : even then, it was based on Multics, which was, if I recall
- : correctly, the first major OS with hierarchical directories and
- : which used the slash to create pathnames for them back in the
- : 70's, and long before DOS ever came about.
-
- : Actually, Multics uses the `>' character for downward directory
- : addressing, and `<' for upward addressing. Eunuchs, being the
- : ill-conceived, castrated, pseudo-Multics that it is, had to mash
- : them into the `/' and `..' that we all know and hate.
-
- : And Multics started using that syntax in the 60's, not the 70's. BTW,
- : Multics systems still run at several locations, such as
- : DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL and MULTICS-A.PMS.FORD.COM (hidden behind a
- : firewall). Anyone know the addresses of the others?
-
- The B5000 and 5500 had two level hierarchy using "/" in 1963 or 1964.
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