On 17 May 97 at 15:39, Frank da Cruz wrote:
> It's interesting to speculate how different the world (of computing) might be
> today if only a few arbitrary and perhaps whimsical decisions had been made
> differently decades ago: if UNIX and several other popular platforms had used
> CRLF rather than LF (or CR) as the line terminator; if DOS had used "forward
> slash" (/) rather than "backward slash" (\) as the directory separator... How
> many person-eons of effort have gone into addressing the consequences of these
> decisions...
If the original IBM PC had used EBCDIC instead of ASCII...
Tony Harminc
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