[COFF] [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History

[Grant Taylor]

On 10/28/19 2:43 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:
rrrrrrrrrrr> Back in the days of stand-alone programs, physical switches 
on the
> console were used to set program options.

This helps explain why the option is called a "switch" in some OSs.



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