I might actually upset some folks by saying....who cares, it's just a character? I've worked with many OS's that didn't even have a directory structure, and th

I might actually upset some folks by saying....who cares, it's just a character? I've worked with many OS's that didn't even have a directory structure, and those that did were only one level deep. And there wasn't a lot of "slashing" going on....DG RDOS for example. Some other OS's had colons (perhaps VMS - I can't remember now. We're talking about a time back in the depths of history where OS's had their own specific quirks. To assume that folks bumping into computing way-back-when encountered Unix regularly and "used slashes" is based on a deeply flawed presumption. Back in the early 80's (and into the early 90's) cheap computing was to be had by the use of CP/M and MSDOS, not Unix because it was too bloody expensive for non-academic use. I used to look after a bunch of SCO 86 boxes in my time (pre-Linus), for the customer these licenses were not cheap compared to say MP/M. My first encounter with Unix and the "forward slash" was in fact in 1986, running on a NCR Tower box (and that's some minor exotica I could go on about...) and to me it was just another thing to remember. So glorifying Unix over its choice of "/" as a directory separator. Really, who cares? I enjoy Unix and Linux, but this hagiography over its greatness ("/") seriously makes me wonder about how folks choose an OS these days to get work done.