Why does Windows use backslashes for paths and Unix forward slashes?

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00:26 Accepted answer (Score 126)
02:45 Answer 2 (Score 11)
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/176388/w...

Accepted answer links:
[Why is the root directory denoted by a ]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions...
[MS-DOS]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
[CP/M]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
[VMS]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS
[on Larry Osterman's blog]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive...
[you can't use ]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
[rejects slashes]: https://superuser.com/questions/441210/c...

Answer 2 links:
[underlying Windows API]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
[MS-DOS 2.0]: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/MS-DOS
[IBM]: http://www.ibm.com
[MS-DOS 1.0]: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/MS-DOS
[CP/M]: http://www.cpm.z80.de/
[Wikipedia: Backslash]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash
[Larry Osterman's WebLog]: http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/arch...

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