Apple ][+ OS

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Sat Jan 31 03:21:22 1998

Hotze wrote:
>
> Well, a 15 character limit's not bad to me at all. Actually, I've gotten
> used to 8 with MS-DOS, which I still use when I want something DONE.
> Actually, I was wondering what the heck Microsloth was thinking when they
> made it 8 characters. And, the fact that in the next 5 FULL RELEASES
> (Counting only the .0's, 2.0 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0) nothing was done about
> it.

They didn't have to think -- the filename was taken along with most
of the command set from CP/M. And it screws up Unix databases that
have to maintain compatibility with our brain-damaged users, even
though Unix is no longer limited by our old 14-character limit on
filenames (and even then, you had a choice where the dot went and
could use more than one).
-- 
Ward Griffiths
Dylan:  How many years must some people exist, 
			before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd:  If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
			they'll never be free.
Received on Sat Jan 31 1998 - 03:21:22 GMT

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