Re: Xah Lee's Unixism
From: SM Ryan (wyrmwif_at_tango-sierra-oscar-foxtrot-tango.fake.org)
Date: 09/01/04
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:06:06 -0000
rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
# Craig A. Finseth <news@finseth.com> wrote:
# +---------------
# | Ville Vainio <ville@spammers.com> wrote:
# | >... and / as path separator still screws up most of their cmd line
# | >programs (which think / is for command line options).
# | >Microsoft probably thought avoiding compatibility is a good idea, and
# | >have only lately started to have some regrets...
# |
# | Wrong. The / was chosen as the command line option separator because
# | whoever wrote MSDOS was looking to CP/M, who modelled their commands
# | after a PDP-11 operating system (RT-11?).
# +---------------
#
# Which, like PS/8 & OS-8 [and "DECsystem-8" from Geordia Tech] for the
# PDP-8, modelled the command syntax after that of the venerable PDP-10!!
There's a story about why railroad tracks are spaced the way they are.
Dig deep enough and traces of old DEC, IBM, CDC, Honeywell, and Burroughs
can still be found.
-- SM Ryan http://www.rawbw.com/~wyrmwif/ I'm not even supposed to be here today.
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