[TUHS] UNIX Backslash History

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Oct 28 07:31:33 AEST 2019


    > From: Charles Anthony

    > /home/CAnthony     

I think it was >user_dir_dir>Group>User, wasn't it? I seem to remember my
homedir on MIT-Multics was >udd>CSR>JNChiappa?

And I wonder if the 'dd' directory on PDP-7 Unix owe anything to 'udd'?

Getting back to the original query, I'm wondering if '/' was picked
as it wasn't shifted, unlike '>'?

   Noel


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