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Wonder where you got that information from, since CP/M is older than VMS by like 3 years. Can’t be... wonder where this keeps cropping up. Besides CPM filesyst

Wonder where you got that information from, since CP/M is older than VMS by like 3 years. Can’t be... wonder where this keeps cropping up. Besides CPM filesystem wasn’t hierarchical.

aidenn0 7y ago
> Wonder where you got that information from, since CP/M is older than VMS by like 3 years. Can’t be... wonder where this keeps cropping up. This stack-exchange post[1] Looks like that's a corruption of the information from a MS blog[2], which does not mention CP/M but DOS 1.0 as taking it from DEC in general, including systems older than VMS. > Besides CPM filesystem wasn’t hierarchical. Which I mentioned in my comment. 1: https://superuser.com/questions/176388/why-does-windows-use-backslashes-for-paths-and-unix-forward-slashes https://superuser.com/questions/176388/why-does-windows-use-... 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20120304135002/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/06/24/432386.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20120304135002/http://blogs.msdn...
aidenn0 7y ago
DOS couldn't use "/" for paths because it was already using it for command flags (where unix uses "-"). This predates both VMS and CP/M by being used in RT-11 (an older DEC OS).