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The author mentioned this: "IBM had decided to use the slash for command flags, eliminating Unix as a precedent, and the period was used between filename and f
by astine 15y ago
The author mentioned this:
"IBM had decided to use the slash for command flags, eliminating Unix as a precedent, and the period was used between filename and filename extension, making it impossible to follow DEC's example."
- WalterBright 15y agoDEC also used periods to separate filename from extension. People forget that CPM's conventions (which were copied by CPM/86 and PC-DOS) were copied from DEC conventions. DEC operating systems were very, very popular at the time.