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Interestingly, Russian DOS/Windows, despite having an entire Cyrillic alphabet in the upper part of the codepage, still used \ as the path separator. One weirdn

Interestingly, Russian DOS/Windows, despite having an entire Cyrillic alphabet in the upper part of the codepage, still used \ as the path separator. One weirdness is that we read drive letters as Latin, so C: is "disk tse".

thriftwy 5y ago
...which was in turn probably inherited from chess.
- grishka 5y ago
  Or from math. We're also taught to call variables in formulas and vertexes in geometry like that.