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Date:      Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:16:11 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Seeking Monsieur Joliet
Message-ID:  <86odlqy7vo.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200704141535363203745@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> (Frank Mitchell's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:56:29 %2B0000")
References:  <200704141535363203745@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk>

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"Frank Mitchell" <mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> writes:
> Some folks rubbish the Joliet CD File System because Microsoft use
> it. But can anybody identify an actual Monsieur Joliet who invented
> it?  Presumably he exists somewhere. Was he in fact a Microsoft
> employee?

No, it's named for Joliet, Illinois.  It originated in Windows 95
which was at the time codenamed Chicago.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no



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