12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
4:20 p.m.
On 12/12/11 1:52 PM, Richard wrote:
In article<F43ABB87-4611-4D9F-81F1-8ACA238D99BB at
shiresoft.com>,
Guy Sotomayor<ggs at shiresoft.com> writes:
A modern system with this limitation would be very awkward indeed, as
many extensions are now specified with more than 3 characters.
--Toby
It's even more general than that. Many folks
have fallen into the
Microsoft (FAT) limitation that a file is [3-letter extension format]
Wait, you mean the limitation that is present on RSTS/E, RT-11,
RSX-11, TOPS-10, TOPS-20 (and probably a bunch more DEC OSes) and
CP/M?
In other words: this mental model of a 3-letter file extension was
around LONG before Microsoft.