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flukus
3323 days ago
Also ./ for the current folder is still used on all OS's. I think your examples predate computers having folders though.
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kps
3323 days ago
UNIX's ‘.’ predates Microsoft BASIC. (Possibly inherited from Multics, but I don't know.)
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flukus
3323 days ago
I was thinking more of ed, for some reason I thought folders were a later invention, 70's or early 80's, but they were first used in 1958:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_(computing)
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