4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
3:58 p.m.
At 01:45 PM 3/4/2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
What about Commodore machines - did they support
directories at all?
Which Commodore machines? I don't recall folders on Pet or C-64
drives, but on the Amiga, it inherited some weirdisms from Tripos,
like "/foldername" didn't mean the "foldername" off root, but
meant instead "up a folder, then down into foldername".
On Mar 4, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Just found the following snippet in a 1990 document
(someone's review of
a GUI show which they'd attended). Just struck me as interesting in that
I never knew there was an alternative to 8.3 filenames in the
DOS/Windows world prior to Win95, nor have I ever heard of HP NewWave
before...
I seem to remember an odd pre-Win DOS shell that did that, too.
- John