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- userbinator 5y agoThe author of this article tends to stay on the PC side, so I doubt he'll look into that. But others have written about it: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17069/why-did-macos-classic-choose-the-colon-as-a-path-separator https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17069/why... Paths were, and to a certain extent still are, not readily visible on Macs.