28 Oct
2019
28 Oct
'19
2:31 a.m.
What is the special meaning of using / as directory
partition in UNIX? And \ as the escape character.
\ came from Multics. The first day Multics ran at Bell Labs Bob Morris
famously typed backslash-newline at the login prompt and crashed the
system.
Multics had a hierarchical file system, too, but I don't recall how
pathnames were punctuated.
Doug