> Let's not even start on the CRLF thing... CRLF is actually the Internet standard. It wasn't something Microsoft came up with, it was something they inherited

> Let's not even start on the CRLF thing... CRLF is actually the Internet standard. It wasn't something Microsoft came up with, it was something they inherited from DEC > Yes, Windows owes it's origin to OS/2, and OS/2 used '\' instead of '/' - so we should never correct a decision inherited from an OS that died 22 years ago... That's not what the article actually says though. DOS 2.0 decided on '\' instead of '/', and both OS/2 and Windows inherited that decision from DOS.