OT: DOS/Windows and slashes (was Re: Windows XP Pro andPossiblefilePro Bug)

[Fairlight]

In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:48:34PM -0600, Keith F Weatherhead achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> 
> 
> Fairlight wrote:
> > 
> > Mine did.  Pretty darned sure of that, too...like 99%.  It was the CP/M
> > that came with Applied Engineering's z80+ card for the Apple ][e.
> 
> Actually thru 3.0 (CP/M Plus) there were no directories, AFAIR. 
> There were USER AREAS (User 0 was common and User 1 thru 15 were 
> unique areas.  If you wanted to share a file it had to be in USER 0.

"I could be wrong..."  :-/  My memory isn't what it once was.

I suppose it's a point of academic interest at this point.  Only because
I'm losing ground here, of course!  *grin*

*retreats with -some- dignity*

mark->