9 Jul
2016
9 Jul
'16
midnight
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Clem Cole wrote:
I find it interesting that Redmond-ism became the
unshifted character,
not the vertical bar by the shear force of economics of the PC.
Beta documents suggest M$ wanted to switch the...switch character to dash
(-) for 2.0 and use / for the path separator, but *IBM* insisted on
keeping / and using \ for path separator...and what IBM wanted, IBM got.
That said I think one or two OEMs did in fact set the SWITCHAR to - and
use / for a path separator anyway.
-uso.