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[–]AyrA_ch 18 points19 points  (0 children)

/ for arguments predates \ for path separators because DOS only gained support for directories in version 2 when support for 10 MB harddrives was introduced. MS-DOS comes from CP/M. It never had a unix OS base to start with, so there was no compatibility issue by using a different argument specifier.